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Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect.
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kingship.

hŏ-kháu cheh;
a list of the population.
thîen cheh;
enrol on the lists.
kin-nî hûang-tì cheh-lîp hûang-hŏ;
this year the emperor has made an empress by patent.

chek

  • chek8231196
  • Paddy; rice in the husk.
chek-chng;
a granary.
chng chek;
to garner rice.
cek liap chek;
a grain of unhusked rice.
phâk chek;
spread rice in the sun to dry.
chek-tîaⁿ;
an area made for drying rice.
chek-pê;
a paddy scoop.
chek-thâu;
paddy.
chek-tĭam;
a paddy basket.
phàⁿ chek;
blasted rice.
chek-sui;
a head of paddy.
chek-sui hoih;
the heads of paddy are blighted.
chek, nŏ̤ tâng sĭ cêk seng, câp seng kìe-cò̤ cêk táu, câp táu kìe-cò̤ cêk cîeh;
two pints of paddy are a quart, ten quarts are a peck, and ten pecks make a chaldron.
cêk cîeh cĭu sĭ cêk tàⁿ, cêk tàⁿ bōi kâi gūa ngṳ̂n;
a chaldron is a picul, and a picul sells for over a dollar.
kùe lâi kâi chek kè khíong-ùi kùi;
late in the season the price of paddy may be still higher.
cêk tàⁿ chek oi ŭ jîeh cōi bí?
How much hulled rice have you got from the picul of paddy?
cêk seng bí cṳ́ jîeh cōi pn̄g?
How much boiled rice will a quart of uncooked rice make?
châng chek cîah pn̄g;
eat of the product of one's own fields.
chek-sni pá, siu ŭ sîaⁿ;
the ears of paddy are full and we shall harvest many fold.
put chek lâi cìm céng;
put some paddy asoak to use as seed.
lṳ́ cêk nî siu ŭ jîeh cōi chek?
How much paddy do you harvest in a year?
lô̤h hieⁿ lâi siu co chek;
gone to the country to get his share of the product of the rice fields.
cí lûa chek oi ŭ jîeh cōi cho-khng chut lâi?
How much paddy husk came from this basket of unhusked rice?
úa tun ŭ kúi choiⁿ tàⁿ chek tŏ̤ kò̤;
I have several thousand piculs of paddy on hand.
thìe kúi tàⁿ chek lâi bói mûeh;
barter off paddy for other goods.
tîah chek;
buys paddy.
lô̤h hŏ chek bŏi ta, tîeh khí húe lâi pue;
it rains so the paddy cannot dry, and a fire must be built for drying it.
châng tèng kâi chek cìm kàu chut gê;
the paddy in the fields has sprouted.
cí cho̤h chek kâi chek-khak pô̤h, oi ío ŭ bí;
the husk of this paddy is thin, and there will be the more of the rice after hulling.
  • chek960859
  • To estimate; to fathom.
lâng chek-tâk;
difficult to estimate.
pìen-hùe lâng chek;
it is difficult to calculate the amount of the change.
chek m̄ pat tò̤ khṳ̀;
do not know how to make an estimate of it.
m̄-hó̤ chek-tâk;
inestimable.
ngŏ̤ tîeh put chek kâi sṳ̄ cū hó̤ ēng;
when something unexpected occurs, it may be used.
chek jī sin-seⁿ;
one who tells fortunes from letters.
chim kàu m̄-hó̤ chek;
unfathomable.
chui-chek tŏ̤-lí;
inscrutable doctrines.
chek-thóiⁿ ŭ jîeh cōi;
make a calculation of the amount.
chek tit chut;
calculable.
chek m̄ chut;
incalculable.
chek-thóiⁿ cúi jîeh chim;
calculate the depth of the water.
kìⁿ tŏ̤ put chek phŏ;
among things inscrutable.
  • chek9591165
  • Insufficient.
kín-chek; oîh-chek;
cramped, straitened, contracted.
kín-chek kín-chek nē;
barely enough.
bô̤ sĭm-mih khuah, ôih-chek ôih-chek;
there is not much space, it is very cramped.
  • chek80413011
  • The knees.
khut chek;
bend the knee.
chek ĕ;
those under one's authority.
kha chíu chek ĕ;
children and dependents.
phang-ie ho̤h-chek;
a waist like a wasp's and knees like a stork's.
ho̤h chek huang;
enlargement of the knee joint.
  • chek960619
  • To sympathize.
chek-ṳ́n kâi sim;
humane feelings.
nâng-nâng to ŭ chek-ṳ́n kâi sim;
every one has natural sympathies.
  • chek72691
  • To expel.
lṳ́ a m̄ cun, úa cĭu cang lṳ́ chek-keh;
if you do not obey, I will take away your office.
chek-tôk;
to drive out.
  • chek95799
  • Lateral; onesided.
chek mâk;
envious glances.
chek sin;
lop sided.
chek-ŏ̤;
leans over to one side.

cheng

  • 韆鞦cheng-chiu981
  • A swing.
cheng-chiu pêⁿ;
the frame from which a swing is suspended.
thóiⁿ nâng phah cheng-chiu;
see people swinging.
peh m̄ cĭeⁿ cheng-chiu pêⁿ;
could not climb into the swing.
hwn-cheng-chiu;
a whirligig.
toaⁿ cheng-chiu;
a swing for one person.
  • cheng761159
  • To designate; to give an appellation; to name.
cheng-hu;
to designate by a name.
thong cheng-cò̤ sin-seⁿ;
are generally called Teachers.
cṳ̆ cheng-cò̤ ŏi;
called himself competent.
ka-kī tho̤-khiam cheng-cò̤ ngô̤;
with a pretense of