Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/piaⁿ

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piaⁿ

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  • piaⁿ698125
  • A soldier; troops; a force; an army; military; warlike.
piaⁿ teng;
soldiers.
piaⁿ cìang;
army leaders.
khí piaⁿ;
raise troops.
thîo piaⁿ;
to station troops.
ceng piaⁿ;
disciplined troops.
hôk piaⁿ;
troops in ambush.
tăi piaⁿ;
the main body of the army.
bé-piaⁿ;
cavalry.
pō-piaⁿ;
infantry.
cìen piaⁿ;
the engaged forces.
kìu piaⁿ;
a force sent to succor.
tíam piaⁿ;
to call the roll; mustering.
chau-līen piaⁿ-bé;
to exercise or drill troops; a disciplined force.
  • piaⁿ698851
  • Ice; icy; crystallized.
piaⁿ sng;
ice and frost.
piaⁿ sng cúi;
ice-water.
cúi kit sêng piaⁿ;
water freezes and forms ice.
piaⁿ îeⁿ khṳ̀;
the ice has melted.
piaⁿ-thn̂g;
rock candy.
pŏ̤-hò̤ piaⁿ;
crystallized peppermint essence.
  • píaⁿ6991846
  • Cake; biscuit; dumplings.
píaⁿ kuaⁿ;
dry biscuits.
guêh píaⁿ;
cakes made at the full of the eighth moon and used in worshipping it.
so-píaⁿ;
crisp cakes.
píaⁿ phûe, píaⁿ āⁿ;
the pastry and the filling of a dumpling.
gû-ni-píaⁿ;
cheese.
sie píaⁿ;
to bake cakes.
pūe píaⁿ;
to bake cakes in a pan over the fire.
  • píaⁿ69914
  • The third of the ten stems.
píaⁿ teng sok húe;
the third and fourth of the ten stems belong to fire.
cŏ̤ jîm hìang píaⁿ;
facing due south.
  • pìaⁿ70098
  • To reduce to uniformity; to expose; to endanger; to pour together.
pìaⁿ mīaⁿ cò̤;
act without regard to his life.
i pìaⁿ căi;
he is very reckless.
nŏ̤ úaⁿ pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk úaⁿ;
put what is in the two bowls into one.
nŏ̤ saⁿ khí ùaⁿ-kĭaⁿ pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk khí;
reduce two or three cases at law to a single case.
màiⁿ pìaⁿ sua-îa;
do not spill it in turning it out.
pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk ē;
turn them all into one lot.
sì pau, pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk pau;
put the four bundles into one.
sie pìaⁿ;
join in one.
pìaⁿ thóiⁿ tī-tîang méⁿ;
see who will be quickest.
thun-pìaⁿ;
to swallow up; to devour.
tōa hieⁿ thun-pìaⁿ síe hieⁿ, tōa kok thun-pìaⁿ síe kok;
large towns swallow up small ones, and great nations swallow up lesser ones.
jī ke sie thun-piaⁿ;
the two devour each other.
  • pîaⁿ7791625
  • To repeat what one has heard.
úa pîaⁿ lṳ́ thiaⁿ;
I will narrate it to you as I heard it.
jī mó̤ chîa, ūe mó̤ pîaⁿ;
letters should not be rubbed out and written in again on the same paper, and words should not be repeated from hearsay.
i cò̤-nî tàⁿ, lṳ́ pîaⁿ úa thiaⁿ;
repeat his words to me as nearly as you can.
cêk kù cêk kù pîaⁿ mēng-pêh;
state it plainly word for word.
cē píaⁿ cū bô̤ saⁿ sîaⁿ;
in relating it he told less than three tenths of the story.