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Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect.

sú-cam;

a thermometer.
huang-hŏ-cam;
a barometer.
sî-ceng cam;
the hands of a clock.
pang-cam; thng-sî cam;
the pin used to fasten the coiffure.
jû cŏ̤ cam-ciⁿ;
as if sitting on needles.
ēng cam lâi thie tīo i kâi hueh;
get a lancet and bleed him.
cam huap;
the rules for acupuncture.
cêk cam kìⁿ hueh;
one puncture brought the blood.
cam kù;
to probe.
cam-tùi;
point to point.
cam-tùi móng nâng tàⁿ;
it refers to what a certain person said.
thih póiⁿ bûa cîaⁿ sìu-hue cam;
an iron ferule may be ground down into an embroidery needle.
  • cam94511812
  • To stick in the hair, or hat.
cam hue;
to put flowers in the hair.
cam ēng;
to put a tassel into a cap.
hue cam, hue lúi;
sprays and flowers, used as head ornaments.
  • cám12697
  • To sever; to sunder; to chop off; to cut.
cám châ;
to cut wood.
cám khui;
to sunder.
cám tīo;
chop it off.
cám thâu;
to behead.
cám chīu lîah cío;
to cut down the tree in order to catch the bird.
cám cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;
cut it in two.
ēng pó-thâu cìaⁿ hó̤ cám;
take an axe and then you can chop it off.
cám cháu tṳ̂ kṳn;
to cut down the weeds and extirpate their roots; to wholly exterminate; to cut off all one's posterity.
cám teng côih thih;
to cut off a nail.
cám síu sī cèng;
to decapitate as a warning to others; to make an oxample of.
kìe cám cŭe;
a capital crime.
kam cám kuaⁿ;
a sheriff.
cám, ká, kun, lîu, thû, sĭ ngŏ īeⁿ hêng huap;
beheading, hanging, sending into the army, temporary banishment, and perpetual banishment, are the five methods of punishment.
  • càm94714916
  • To slander or vilify.
càm-cǹg;
to defame.
i hàuⁿ càm-cǹg nâng;
he is addicted to slandering people.
càm-cǹg kùe lâi, càm-cǹg kùe khṳ̀;
backbiting each the other.
  • căm94616711
  • A fine chisel; a graving tool; to chisel out; to engrave.
căm kíaⁿ;
a graving tool.
căm hue;
to grave flowers.
căm khṳ̀ hue-cháu ngía căi;
the carving was beautifully done.
căm lâi hue-jī m̄ hīn;
the letters are are not plainly cut.
tîeh căm chim cē;
they must be cut deeper.
khah tōiⁿ, căm m̄ lô̤h;
the stuff is too hard, it cannot be chiseled out.
ngṳ̂n căm;
chasing on silver.
căm hue kâi nâng;
the graver.
màiⁿ căm khih khṳ̀;
do not break it in chiseling it.
cîeh căm;
a stone-cutter's chisel.
cía khang tîeh
căm khuah cē, cìaⁿ tàu tit lô̤h;
this hole must be cut larger, so the plug will go in.
căm chùi cē;
cut it more delicately.
  • căm131175
  • A stage of a journey.
îah căm;
the distance between post houses.
cêk căm lō;
one stage of a journey.
tŏ̤ cí-kò̤ kàu hṳ́-kò̤ ŭ kúi căm lō̤?
How many stages from here there?
lō-căm àiⁿ cò̤-nî pheⁿ-phah?
What route have you decided upon?
thâu căm kàu tī-kò̤?
What is the first stopping place?
jī căm kàu hṳ́-kò̤;
that will be the second stopping place on the route.

cang

  • cang967418
  • To take; to make use of; a sign of the accusative.
cang cía a cang hía;
make use of this or that.
cang sĭm-mûeh khṳt i cîah?
What will you give him to eat?
cang hó̤ ūe kio i tàⁿ;
speak comfortably to him.
cang bô̤ cò̤ ŭ;
made out of nothing; unfounded.
tîeh cang sêng-sim, m̄ thû-thû cang ūe tàⁿ;
there must be sincerity as well as professions.
cang ta-po ké cò̤ cṳ-nîe;
had a man disguised as a woman.
àiⁿ cang tī-tîang khṳ̀?
Whom will you send?
  • cang1022758
  • The coir palm.
cang-sui;
a coir cloak.
cang so̤h;
coir rope.
cang chîeh;
a coir mat.
cang sàu;
a coir broom.
cang sieⁿ;
a coir trunk.
  • cang10221908
  • A lady's coiffure.
tá cang;
do up the hair.
lâu mô̤ⁿ, phah cang;
let the hair grow, in order to arrange it in the style of a married woman.
jû-ì cah tŏ̤ cang sim;
an ornament was inserted in the centre of the coiffure.
kíaⁿ-jît kâi cang siu khṳ̀ ngía căi;
your hair is very prettily arranged to-day.
cang-kíaⁿ lô̤;
the hair arranged in a coil.
  • cang95112212
  • A square lifting net, suspended on a frame, and let down by a long rope.
áu cang; khang cang;
to fish with lifting nets.
khîa ki cang lâi áu hṳ̂;
set a lifting net to catch fish.
áu-cang máng-tìeⁿ;
a mosquito bar having a folding frame inside.
  • cang1121407
  • Sedate; serious; a high road.
cang kèng;
serious and respectful.
twn cang;
strictly correct in conduct.
cang ngîam;
strictly proper.
cang tŏng;
respectful.
khang cang tōa lō;
a level highway.