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Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect.
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together to answer the purpose.

tī-kò̤ tó̤ la-ché tit ŭ?
Where can enough be raked and scraped together for it?
ché chùi;
haul so as to break in pieces.
ché m̄ khui;
cannot haul it off.
ché cŭ;
haul fast.
thoa-thoa ché-ché;
drag along.
  • chè1035279
  • A privy.
cĭeⁿ chè;
to go to stool.
chè-tî; chè-kng;
a well for holding nightsoil.
  • chê5643
  • To take up between two chop-sticks.
chê cêk tōa tu;
took up a big lump.
bô̤ nŏ̤ ē chê cĭu ŵn khṳ̀;
it was all gone before we had taken two mouthfuls.
cîah mûeh tîeh ŭ kui-kṳ́, màiⁿ chê khah tōa chùi;
in eating, one must behave properly and not take too big mouthfuls.
m̄-hó̤ lí-lí chê;
do not eat too fast.
chê cêk pn̄g-úaⁿ-thâu;
take up a tid-bit for the top of the bowl.
  • chê6755
  • To examine; to scrutinize.
chê sìo;
to audit accounts.
chê siu;
examined and found it had been received.
chê-mêⁿ-kuaⁿ;
night guards.
chê koi;
patrol the streets.
chê hô̤;
patrol the river.
chê-chak;
to scrutinize.
sûn chê;
to inquire into.
lṳ́ hó̤ khṳ̀ chê;
you go and look it over carefully.
lṳ́ cài khṳ̀ chê tīaⁿ cē;
you go again and look it over with a view to making it more correct.
úa chê kùe lío;
I have already looked it over carefully.
chê m̄ chut;
cannot discover it.
chê tîeh, ío sĭ cîeⁿ-seⁿ;
have looked it over, and it remains the same.
chê tîeh m̄ tùi;
looked it over and came to a different result.
chê ke kah;
take a census.
oi ke-mn̂g-hŏ khṳ̀ chê;
take the domiciles in order, and inquire at each.
chê to bô̤;
examined and found none.
chê lîah kang-sòi;
search for spies.
  • chê629644
  • To press down as in throttling.
cang chíu chê i kâi ăm;
throttled him.
i kâi lâk tōa căi: ciah hóⁿ khṳt i kâi chíu chê tŏ̤ thô-ĕ;
his strength is enormous: the tiger was pinned down to the ground by his thumb and fore-finger.
i kâi nâng híam-híam khṳt i kâi chíu chê sí khṳ̀;
he was very near being throttled and killed by him.

cheⁿ

  • cheⁿ7421000
  • Raw; unripe; crude; unpolished; unaccustomed.
cheⁿ-kúaiⁿ;
fresh fruits.
cheⁿ nêk;
raw meat.
cheⁿ hṳ̂ⁿ;
uncooked fish.
cheⁿ mīn;
the plain surface.
nâng-mīn cheⁿ-so̤;
an unfamiliar
face.
pùaⁿ cheⁿ sek;
half cooked; half ripe.
tâng cheⁿ cîah kàu sêk;
eat from it all the time while it is being cooked.
cheⁿ îeh;
drugs not yet prepared for use.
i ío cheⁿ chíu;
he is a raw hand at it.
cí īeⁿ sṳ̄ i ío cheⁿ;
he is not very familiar with this business.
khí-thâu-ĕ lâi, cheⁿ ĭaⁿ-ĭaⁿ;
has just come, and everytlung is new and strange to him.
cheⁿ cîah;
eats it raw.
cheⁿ mâk, thóiⁿ-m̄-chut;
the eyes being unaccustomed to it, do not discern it.
i mêⁿ-kùa múaⁿ-tī-kò̤ khṳ̀ chái cheⁿ;
he goes about everywhere in the night picking fresh vegetables and fruits.
ke ki cheⁿ-lâk kun lô̤h khṳ̀ cū cìen îaⁿ;
if a fresh body of troops join them they will conquer in the fight.
cheⁿ-hūn;
bashful.
cheⁿ-cheⁿ hūn-hūn;
very diffident.
khṳ̀ kàu cheⁿ thâu m̄ pat mīn;
did not know each other when they met.
  • 瞎眼cheⁿ-mêⁿ185
  • Blind.
cheⁿ-mêⁿ kíaⁿ;
a blind fellow.
cêk cîah mâk cheⁿ-mêⁿ;
blind in one eye.
i kâi mâk cheⁿ-mêⁿ khṳ̀;
she has become blind.
cheⁿ-mêⁿ lăi-cìang;
blind, with no appearance of disease in the eye.
kìe cheⁿ-mêⁿ sin-seⁿ lâi phok khùe;
call a blind fortune-teller to cast a horoscope.
khang cheⁿ-mêⁿ;
lead a blind man.
cêk kâi tok ciah mâk kâi khang cêk khûn cheⁿ-mêⁿ kâi;
a one-eyed one, leading a flock of blind ones.
cheⁿ-mêⁿ koi to̤h tîeh sí nío-chṳ́;
a blind fowl pecked into a dead rat; he got it by good luck, not by ability.
  • cheⁿ808725
  • A star.
cêk lîap cheⁿ;
a star.
ngŏ cheⁿ;
the five planets.
kim cheⁿ; Venus, húe cheⁿ;
Mars.
cúi cheⁿ;
Mercury.
bâk cheⁿ;
Jupiter.
thó cheⁿ;
Saturn.
cheⁿ hi-hi; the stars are far apart thiⁿ tèng kâi cheⁿ;
the stars of heaven.
thien-bûn-seng múi-mêⁿ lûn-lîu thóiⁿ cheⁿ;
the royal astronomers take turns in watching the stars every night.
cău-hùe ŭ kìu cheⁿ;
there was timely deliverance.
hô̤-khoi tói kâi cheⁿ īa ho̤h cōi;
there are also many stars in the milky way.
cheⁿ-sìu;
the starry hosts.
cí lîap cheⁿ ciu nî tŏ̤ kò̤, bô̤ kîaⁿ;
this star stays all the year round and does not move.
cheⁿ ŭ khí kîaⁿ méⁿ, ŭ khí kîaⁿ māng;
some of the stars move faster than others.
cheⁿ-tō;
an astronomical atlas.
cheⁿ-sîn kùe tō;
a star moving from its place.
jît gûeh cheⁿ kìe-cò̤ saⁿ sîn, īa kìe-cò̤ sam kuang;
the sun moon and stars are called the heavenly bodies and are also called the three great lights.
cheⁿ tùi lô̤h lâi;
a star fell.
cheⁿ mêⁿ khṳ̀ pò̤;
went by starlight to inform