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áik-uāng 扼腕 to seize by the wrist, met., angry, urgent.
äilk 阜阨 a strategic point, a narrow road,
广厄 a hindrance, an obstruction, a calamity, distress.
áilk-gung extremely poor.
áilk-mò-dék-guó 阨毛的過 can't escape the calamity.
aik-nâng 阨難 交 distress, sorrow, (cäi-áilk).
áilk a yoke.
áing (read iék) to smother, as a fire.
áing-huāi 爐火 to extinguish fire.
ang-táng 爛炭 to smother burning coals in a jar.
âing 阜限 ㄒㄧㄠ to limit, to restrict, a boundary, a threshold, a limit.
âing-ci 限止 fix the limits, as of time.
âing-cié 限制 to restrict, to limit, delimitation.
âing-diâng 限定 to fix a limit to. (ù-âing).
âing-gá 限價 to limit prices.
âing-gi 限期 limited time, (diàng-gi).
âing-ging 限緊 to set strict limits.
aing-kuăng 限寬 to set large limit, as to time.
aing-liê 限例 to fix regulations, as to time and work.
aing-liêng 限量 a measure, a limit.
âing-muāng 限滿 time expired, (diēng-âing).
âing-nik 限日 to fix the day.
ang-nội 限內 within the limit, (gio-âing).
âing-ngiăh 限額 a limited number.
âing-uāng 限碗 to limit the number of bowls of rice.
áiu (ěu). 漚文 to soak, to steep.
áiu má 漚麻 to steep hemp.
ák 手押 to control, to escort, to force, to pawn, to mortgage, to affix a seal.
ák-buăng 押搬 officially to compel one to move.
ák-dáung 押當 to pawn.
ák-dèu 押條 the accusation placed on the back of criminals.
ák-gá-chặ 押解差 an escort of taxes or prisoners.