dictionary of the swatow dialect.
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the matter.
- hú-tău íⁿ-keng thek ti-kūiⁿ khṳ̀ phōiⁿ;
- the prefect has already directed the district magistrate to take up the case and adjudicate it.
- kuaⁿ-hú ngîam thek tī-pó̤ sòi-sim khṳ̀ chê-chip;
- the officer strictly charged the alderman to carefully inquire into it.
- 騭thek6818710
- To cause to progress; to promote.
- im-thek;
- a good deed, springing from real love; unostentatious benevolence; a beneficient action secretly performed.
- i sît-că hó̤ im-thek;
- he is really philanthropic.
- mâk ĕ īa-sĭ phû ŭ im-thek hûn cū hó̤ tói tīo cía cai-eh;
- if a sign of real goodness appears it will debar the approaching evil from coming nearer.
- im-thek bûu;
- exhortations to benevolence.
- 禿thek9231152
- Hairless; bald.
- thek lṳ̂;
- a hairless mule, a term of contempt for a Buddhist priest.
- 倜儻thek-tháng903
- A law to one's self; worth of promotion.
- pí pât nâng lêng-gūa thek-tháng;
- has a more distinguished appearance than other people.
theng
- 窗theng1151166
- An aperture to give light in a room; a window; a sash; a shutter; a school or student.
- pâng lăi kâi theng tîeh kui tōa cē cìaⁿ kng;
- the windows of the bedroom must be made rather large then it will be light.
- theng-cí;
- the vertical-bars across a window.
- theng khuang;
- window-casing.
- îⁿ theng;
- a round aperture for the admission of light.
- theng mn̂g;
- window-blind or shutter.
- theng bâi;
- the top of a window.
- theng chēng;
- a bar to fasten a window.
- cùaⁿ theng;
- to bar a window.
- po̤-lî theng;
- a glass window.
- ô̤-kìa theng;
- a window made from translucent shells.
- hó̤ⁿ-thâu theng;
- an elevated skylight in a roof.
- thiⁿ theng;
- a skylight.
- khui theng;
- open the window.
- kueⁿ theng;
- shut the window.
- theng thèⁿ;
- the prop by which a window shutter is upheld.
- khui mn̂g thèⁿ theng tó̤ cò̤;
- doing it with all the doors and windows all open; does it without fear of being seen.
- phò theng;
- shop windows.
- phò theng pang màiⁿ chēng tāⁿ;
- do not set up the shop window-shutters in a wrong order.
- huang-lô theng;
- the ventilator in the bottom of an earthen stove.
- huang-lô-theng píaⁿ;
- waffles.
- cí kâi kau-hâm lâi cò̤ kâi thih theng;
- let us have a perforated iron mouth-piece at the end of this covered drain.
- tâng theng phêng-íu;
- friends who have studied at the same window;
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fellow students; chums.
- tieh ŭ câp nì bâng theng kâi kang-hu cìaⁿ ŭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
- one must have given ten years to hard study in order to be able to do this.
- khó̤ kìeu i tŏ̤ theng ĕ sĭ ŭ ēng kang;
- can perceive that he was diligent at his studies.
- 懲theng796115
- To correct, as officials do miscreants.
- īa sĭ káⁿ kù-ì hŭam cŭe kâi cū tîeh chông tăng theng-phōiⁿ, cìaⁿ hó̤ theng-kài ău nâng;
- if there be those who intentionally transgress, they must be punished with severity, that those who come after may be deterred from like crimes.
- 挺théng908647
- To pull out, to stretch, to strain, to rush or stand forth.
- théng sin;
- to stretch one's self up straight.
- cū sĭ i théng sin chut lâi cò̤ cú;
- it was he who stood forth and took the management of affairs.
- tàⁿ kàu théng heng pôih kèⁿ;
- spoke with a big voice and fierce aspect.
- kha théng tît-tît;
- stretch your legs straight.
- màiⁿ théng phùa phŭe;
- do not strain the coverlet so severely as to teat it.
- cē théng cū ŏi chun, cē pàng cū ŏi kiu;
- when you pull it, it stretches and when you slacken the strain it shrinks; it is very elastic.
- théng khuah cē;
- pull upon it to make it wider.
- théng khui-khui;
- stretch it to make it cover as much surface as possible.
- théng i tn̂g;
- stretch it lengthwise.
- théng tît-tît;
- straighten it by pulling at the ends.
- 奓théng3376
- To stretch open; to open out.
- i kâi sî théng m̄ khui;
- it cannot spread its wings.
- nŏ̤ phìn sît théng kàu khui-khui;
- both wings spread to their utmost stretch.
- nŏ̤ phìⁿ mn̂g lóng-cóng théng khui;
- open both doors.
- théng hŏ-sùaⁿ;
- spread an umbrella.
- théng pò-phâng;
- stretch an awning.
- 艇théng9081377
- A punt; a canoe; a dugout; long small boats.
- i sĭ tah théng-cûn khṳ̀ atah húe-cûu khṳ̀?
- Did he go by a native boat or by steamer?
- hûa-théng;
- native craft.
- théng-kíaⁿ;
- a punt.
- hue-théng;
- a flower-boat, used for parties.
- khui-po̤-théng;
- a lighter.
- lêng-théng;
- a dragon-boat; a long canoe.
- 逞théng801627
- To act with effrontery; presuming; forward; relying on one's pretensions or power.
- théng kong lêng;
- confident of one's own abilities; overweening.
- i to sĭ tó̤ théng kong lêng;
- he is always putting himself forward.
- mih sṳ̄
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