dictionary of the swatow dialect.
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- 承sêng78644
- To succeed to; to take over; to undertake; to receive and hold.
- sĭ kio i sêng pûe kâi;
- is what ho has taken off her hands; has superseded him in the possession or occupancy of it.
- cí kâi sĭ kio nâng sêng kâi;
- this is something taken over from another.
- cía sêng-sĭu m̄ khí;
- I am not adequate to this.
- hŏng-sêng;
- adulation; flattery.
- sêng-ciap i kâi ĕ chíu;
- take hold when he lets go.
- sêng tng m̄ tit;
- cannot bear up under so much; cannot answer for it.
- i tó̤ tng sêng-hwt-pâng cóng-su;
- he is the officer in the Board who receives and forwards dispatches.
- sêng cīeⁿ kâi mĕng;
- to receive orders from a superior in office.
- cang i a-tĭ kâi kíaⁿ lâi sêng i kâi hieⁿ-teng;
- adopted his younger brother's son, as a successor who should in his stead worship the manes.
- 丞sêng7815
- To aid, to second; a deputy, a coadjutor, an assistant.
- sêng-sìeⁿ;
- a prime minister (an ancient term).
- kūiⁿ-sêng;
- a district magistrate's deputy.
- jī ke sĭ sêng;
- they are coadjutors each to the other.
- îah-sêng;
- a road-master superintending a station on a post-road.
- 乘sêng77249
- In arithmetic, to multiply.
- sǹg-sìo put kùe sĭ ēng kui in sêng tṳ̂ kâi huap;
- calculation is merely the use of the rules for division, addition, multiplication and subtraction.
- 成sêng77622
- To bring to pass.
- sêng cĭu;
- accomplished.
- cò̤ tit sêng;
- can compass it.
- cò̤ m̄ sêng;
- could not bring it about.
- cò̤ sêng a būe?
- Is it yet completed?
- m̄ sêng khi̤;
- not fitted for the position.
- sêng jîn khì;
- fitted for actual life.
- tì sêng pēⁿ;
- to become sick.
- cò̤ sêng lío;
- already effected.
- lṳ́ thóiⁿ cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ cò̤ tit sêng;
- see whether this can be effected.
- sêng teng;
- an adult.
- būe sêng teng;
- a minor.
- i kâi chin íⁿ-keng cò̤ sêng lío;
- his marriage is already consummated.
- tô̤h jît sêng chin;
- choose the day for the wedding.
- m̄ sen̂g phìen tn̄g;
- not amounting to a wholesale packet.
- kong sêng, mîaⁿ cĭu;
- honors attained and fame secured.
- lău-sêng căi;
- trustworthy.
- 松sêng830754
- The pine tree.
- sêng-peh;
- pine.
- sêng-hieⁿ;
- resin, pitch.
- sêng thùaⁿ;
- charcoal made from pine.
- sêng-peh lûi;
- pine cones.
- sêng-peh chiu;
- pine needles.
- lô̤-hàng-sêng;
- the yew.
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- 乘sĕng77249
- To seize the opportunity; to take advantage of; to avail one's self of; in arithmetic, to multiply.
- sĕng ŭ khang-khiah cū jîp khṳ̀;
- get in through a crack.
- sĕng ki-hŭe;
- seize the chance.
- sĕng i bô̤ ṳ̆-pĭ;
- catch him unprepared.
- sĕng huang, pàng húe;
- when the wind is right, set it on fire.
- sĕng cí kâi sì ío kōi cò̤;
- take advantage of the drift in that direction, and it will be more easily done.
- kui in sĕng tṳ̂ kâi sǹg huap;
- the rules for division, addition, multiplication and subtraction.
- sĕng ki cak-lw̆n;
- take the opportunity to revolt.
- sĕng pĭen kìa lâi;
- send it when there is a convenient opportunity.
- 盛sĕng7721087
- Plenteous; abundant; flourishing; exuberant; in perfect conditio.
- jú buah jú sĕng;
- the more I annoint it, the more it spreads.
- mŏng-sĕng;
- luxuriant; affluent; thrifty.
- sĕng sue;
- to thrive or to decline; growing vigorous, or failing in health.
- cí hûe cìaⁿ tó̤ sĕng kâi sî-hāu;
- this is a prosperous time with it.
- thô̤ hue sĕng khui kâi sî-hāu;
- when the peaches are in bloom.
- i kâi húe tó̤ sĕng;
- the fever is increasing.
- húe tó̤ sĕng, phah m̄ kùe;
- the fire is burning more hotly, and cannot be extinguished.
- châk-sì sĕng;
- the rebels gather strength.
- cía sĭ i cêk tn̄g sĕng ì;
- this is his idea about it.
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- tong-si;
- east and west; all between the east and west; anything; frequently used as a term of reproach.
- hṳ́ khí nâng m̄ sĭ tong-si;
- such people are of no account; they are of no use in the world; they are nobody.
- hía, àu tong-si;
- they are worthless trash.
- kâi sĭ sĭm-mih tong-si?
- What sort of thing is it?
- 詩si7591496
- Poetry; verse; odes; hymns.
- cò̤ si;
- compose verses.
- cêk siu si;
- one stanza.
- sŏng si; ngîm si;
- to sing or chant hj'mns.
- si kó̤; si chó̤;
- the rough draft of a poem.
- si tôi;
- the title or prelude of a poem.
- sì kù si;
- verses of four lines.
- si nêk;
- the ode itself.
- si bûn kŭ hó̤;
- the odes are excellent.
- cêk tîo si;
- a poem or hymn.
- tôi si;
- improvise a stanza.
- hŏ̤ si;
- match rhymes.
- úa cò̤ tîo si lṳ́ hŏ̤;
- I will compose an ode, and you compose another having the same rhymes throughout.
- khîeh pńg si ūn lâi chê;
- get a book of standard rhymes and see whether this is a correct rhyme.
- si-ong;
- a poet.
- si kiaⁿ;
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