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Entries categorized as ‘H’

China dust storms

June 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Hong-poe-soa

Categories: Environment · H · Health · Science and Technology

Interrelated

June 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

·-siōng ū koan-hē

Categories: Economics · Environment · H · Politics · Religion and Morality · Society

Adequate rainfall

September 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Hō͘-chúi chin sūn

Categories: H

Have to

September 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Hó has a number of meanings, and one that can be a little confusing–especially for Mandarin Chinese speakers–is “have to; should“:

Góa hó lâi-khì ah.

I should be going.

Góa hó khí tha̍k8 chu ah.

I need to go study.

Lí hó khì sé sin-khu ah.

You need to go take a bath.

Categories: H · Things to watch out for

Paternity test

June 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Hiat-iân kàm-tēng

Do a paternity test:

Chò hiat-iân kàm-tēng

Chò DNA kàm-tēng

Categories: Family · H · Relationships · Science and Technology

Have it good; have a good life

June 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Hó-mīa

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Chit-má ê gín-á chin hó-mīa, thó sím-mi̍h8 ū sím-mi̍h8.

Kids today have it so easy; they get whatever they ask for.

Categories: H · Society

Systematic

May 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Ū hē-thóng-sèng

I sī tē-it ê ū hē-thóng-sèng lâi lūn-soat chit-ê kài-liām ê ha̍k8-ka

He was the first scholar to systematically expound on this concept. 

Categories: H

Come and take it

May 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Categories: Diplomacy · H · History · Military

Sinicized aborigines

May 23, 2008 · Comments Off

Se̍k-hoan

This literally means “mature” “fully-cooked” or “familiar barbarians,” and was used to describe aboriginal peoples in Taiwan who had been partly Sinicized and therefore civilized.  The opposite of such peoples would have been the “chhiⁿ-hoan ” or “raw barbarians / uncooked savages.”  Both terms are, obviously, offensive.

The terms “hoan” or “hoan-á” can be used for any peoples who live around the edges of the Han empire, but are usually applied to non-Han people who either live on the fringes of southern or eastern China, or come from the seas to the south or east.  Including, of course, white people.

Categories: Diplomacy · H · Insults · S

Legal loophole

May 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Hoat-lu̍t8-phāng

Bùn hoat-lu̍t8-phāng

Take advantage of a legal loophole

Categories: H · Law