Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/jui

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júi

  • júi1052308
  • To echo, as in replying; an answer.
júi, júi;
aye, aye; to be sure.
cèng nâng lóng-cóng júi-júi, bô̤ nâng káⁿ kêh i;
every one agreed with whatever he proposed, and none dared remonstrate with him.
hùaⁿ nâng ùi i kâi sì, mih sṳ̄ to sĭ júi-júi, nâp-nâp;
they all fear his power, and assent to and aquiesce in everything he says.
  • jûi1049618
  • Only that; and so; to consist in; but.
jûi sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ úa cū m̆;
that being the way it is, I will have nothing to do with it.
jûi-tôk lṳ́ cêk nâng sĭ hó̤;
you are the only one fit for it.
jûi sĭ lṳ́ úa cai tīaⁿ;
you and I are the only ones who know.
cài saⁿ sṳ-jûi;
pondered it over and over.
kháu sŏng, sim jûi;
the mind meditates upon it, while the mouth chants it.
lṳ́ hó̤ ka-kī sṳ-jûi;
you think it over within your own mind.
  • jŭi27716212
  • To will; to entail; to leave, as at death.
lîm sí kâi jŭi cok;
last will and testament.
sĭ kó nâng kâi jŭi kà;
it is the instruction bequeathed to us from the ancients.
sĭ soiⁿ có kâi jŭi ngân;
those were the dying words of his ancestor.
i a-pĕ jŭi-mĕng cang cí koiⁿ phò pun cí kâi kíaⁿ;
his father left orders that this shop be given to this son.
cía sĭ tâng soiⁿ jŭi lô̤h lâi kâi;
this was handed down from former times.
jŭi sit mûeh-kĭaⁿ;
articles left behind and lost.
jŭi chûn jîeh cōi cṳ-cheh pun kíaⁿ-sun-hùe thâk;
left many books for his descendants to study.
tăi-hŭam kíaⁿ-sun to hó̤ tàⁿ-cò̤ sĭ có-pĕ kâi jŭi thói;
all the descendants may say that they are the relicts of their ancestor.
soiⁿ nâng kâi jŭi huap;
the rules bequeathed by those gone before.
kháu jŭi châi;
examine the scholars who entered once but did not pass.
jŭi pak kíaⁿ;
a posthumous son.
có jŭi kâi mûeh-ngîap;
property inherited from ancestors.
toaⁿ-toaⁿ jŭi-chûn cí kâi kíaⁿ;
left only this son.