Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/phio

by Adele Marion Fielde

phio

• 標phio6817511
• The signal flag or banner used as a marking flag; the troops under one banner; a corps; a sign- board; a ticket or card; a warrant; to make a signal; to put up a notice; to inscribe.

úa thóiⁿ-kìⁿ kâi phio-thâu;

I saw the notice that he had put up.

i kâi îeh-phio cò̤-nî tàⁿ?

What does the advertisement, stuck up to lead people to buy his medicine, say about it?

put-lŭn bōi sĭm-mûeh to chut ŭ phio;

whatever sort of thing is sold, there is the shop-mark set upon it.

i seⁿ lâi phio-tì;

she is very pretty.

i phio ĕ ŭ jîeh cōi îaⁿ?

How many brigades are there under that flag.

i sĭ cò̤ tok-phio kâi kuaⁿ a cò̤ bú-phio kâi kuaⁿ?

Is he a governor or a lieutenant governor?

cí kâi sĭ tŏ̤ tìn-phio kò̤, hṳ́ kâi sĭ tŏ̤ thî-phio kò̤;

this one is with the brigadier-general, that one is with the major-general.

sĭ i phio ĕ kâi piaⁿ;

they are troops that belong under his banner.

• 航phio1681374
• To sail; to travel by water.

i sĭ tùi lăi lō khṳ̀ a sĭ phio hái khṳ̀?

Did he go by land or by sea?

phio hái ío méⁿ kàu;

by going by sea he will arrive sooner.

• 飄phio68318211
• Swayed by the wind.

khin-phio;

of no great weight.

i kâi cò̤ sṳ̄ khah khin-phio;

his conduct is marked by too great levity.

khîeh tîeh khin-phio khin-phio nē;

take hold of it very lightly indeed.

• 漂phio6838511
• To drift; to float about.

tŏ̤ hái tèng phio;

drift about at sea.

sì-chù phio-lîu;

roam about everywhere, as a vagabond might.

phio kùe îeⁿ;

roam abroad across the seas.

• 嫖phîo6834811
• Wanton; lewd.

i kâi sĭ tōa phîo kheh;

he is one who spends much in lewdness.

i m̄ cṳ̆ lĭang căi, to̤ bŏi thàng, īu hàuⁿ phîo;

he lacks the power of self-restraint, earns nothing, and and follows lewd women.

hàuⁿ phîo;

lecherous.