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báik-sêu-huộng 百壽坊 arch to a person (a hundred years old).
báik-sêu-bok-cầu unsuccessful in everything.
báik-sêu-dâi-gk 百事大吉 great luck in everything.
báik-ù-ék-sék 百無一失 makes no blunders.
báik-ung-bók-u-ék-giếng 如一見 better see once than hear 100 times.
báik 八八兰 eight, Radical 12.
才手 the complicated form for same.
báik-a-lěk 八下六 eight times six, forty-eight.
baik baik 八八 eight times eight, sixty-four.
báik-bö 八寶 the 8 organs in Buddha's body.
baik cê 八字 the eight characters, (of one's horoscope.)
báik-cé-kǎ 八字胶 the feet turned out, like the word "eight" as in walking.
báih-cê-mì 八字眉 figure eight eyebrows.
báik-deu-ci cài fig., of transcendent talents.
báik-ding 八珍 the 8 delicacies.
báik-gák, coll. 八合 the eight united, (pieces of a coffin).
báik-gáek 八角 star aniseed, 8 cornered, 8 dimes.
báik-gáck-iu 八角油 aniseed oil.
báik-gì 八旗 the eight banners, Manchu, (gì-â)
báik-ging 八景 eight beautiful views.
báik-go 八哥 the crested mynah, acridotheres cristatellus, (L).
báik-gũ (ùng-ciống). 八股(文章) the old essay with its 8 parts.
báik-gu-son-téng-siǎh 八股索 to earn a living as a coolie or huckster.
báik-guá 八卦 the eight diagrams.
báik-hong-cự 八行書 Chinese note paper.
bái-hông 八分 eight-tenths; probably.
báik-hông-ci-ék 八分之一 one-eighth.
bái-hung 八分 a kind of writing.
báik-huống 八方 the 8 points of the compass.
báik-ik 八佾 a band of eight musicians.
báik-ing 八音 eight sorts of musical instruments the Foochow 8 tones.
báik-ing-ak 八音盒 a music box.
báik-ing-cũng 八音鐘 a musical clock, (nâu cũng).
báik-ing-king 八音琴 musical boxes.