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bâi-gă-cu 敗家子 a spendthrift son.
bâi-gǒng-säng to ruin one's self and country.
敗江山 “has ruined the empire" wasted a patrimony.
bài-gắng-ci-cióng 敗軍之將 the general of a defeated army.
bài gùng 敗群 to injure the people.
bãi-háng 敗興 to mar one's pleasure, (bâi-é),
bâi-huá-siöng-hing 敗化傷風 injurious to morals.
bâi-huâi 敗壞 corrupt, to destroy.
bai-huâi-muòng-hing 敗壞門風 ruined in character and reputation, (of a family).
bâi-hung-sük 敗風俗 corrupt manners or customs.
bai-ló 敗露 the disgrace revealed.
bai-lu-cảng hoa 敗柳殘花 fig., lost beauty or chastity.
bài mèng 敗盟 to break an oath or contract.
bâi-miěk 敗滅 ruined, spoiled.
bâi (muāi) giāng 敗(尾)仔 a spendthrift, a son who make a final wreck.
bâi-nuk 敗肉 gangrenous flesh or tissue.
bái-ông cùng 敗行情 to derange prices, as by underselling.
bâi-seu 敗事 to ruin an affair.
bâi-só 敗訴 worsted in lawsuit.
bâi-sōng to ruin, to destroy.
bâi-táh-táh 敗○○ to make "a clean sweep," to ruin utterly.
bãi-uòng 敗亡 destroyed, dead.
bãi (pá) tares.
bài cho 稗草 green tares; darnel.
bài huáng a huckster.
bâi-siók a novel, careless chatting.
bâi-su 稗史 a legend.
bâi 心態 weak, exhausted, (pì-bâi).
bâi-sáilk 憊色 pale and haggard.
bâi a term in Buddhist books for praise.
bài cáng 唄讚 a monk's song of praise to Buddha.
bâi. fine, good rice.
báilk (báh) a hundred, many.
báik-bái-ci-gấu 百拜之交 an adopted brother.