A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Keng

by Josiah Goddard

Keng.

宮¹

Palace; inner apartments; a wall; a note in music.

莖¹

Classical books; what is excellent; rules; laws; to manage; to pass through.

𦮨¹

The stem of plants; handle of a sword or spear.

弓¹

A bow; cover of a carriage; a land measure, 8 cubits.

芎¹

A fragrant medicinal plant.

矜¹

Handle of a spear; to compassionate; respectful; conceited.

荆¹

A thorny bush; to punish.

更¹

To change; alteration; still move.

供¹

To place; arrange; give; declare; give evidence.

賡¹

Again; to respond to; continue in succession.

儆²

To warn or caution against.

警²

To warn; rouse; excite; to command with a penalty.

境²

Boundary; frontier; place where on lives; one's condition.

景²

Prospect; appearance; illuminated; boundaries.

竟^-3

Finally; after all; the extreme point of; then.

競^-3

Strong; violent; quarrelsome; precipitate; abundant.

敬^3-

Attentive; respectful; to reverence; worship.