Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/ṳn
ṳu
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- Favor, grace, mercy, kindness; benefits, obligations; imperial favor; charitable; compassionate; to oblige, to show favor to; partial to; heartfelt.
- ṳn-hŭi;
- grace.
- i kám i kâi ṳn;
- she excites his compassion.
- i sĭ bûang ṳn hŭ ngĭ kâi nâng;
- he is an ingrateful reprobate.
- khai ṳn;
- show mercy.
- cía sĭ ṳn-tíen khṳt i;
- this is showing him unmerited favor.
- i cò̤-nî ṳn ciang chiu pò̤?
- Why does he requite good with evil?
- cêng sĭu kùe i kâi ṳn;
- have experienced his kindness.
- sĭ i kâi tăi-ṳn-jîn;
- it is his benefactor.
- ŭ ṳn-cêk kîp peh-sèⁿ;
- has conferred great benefits upon the people.
- pò̤ i kâi ṳn;
- requite his kindness.
- sīa ṳn;
- show gratitude for favors.
- pò̤-tap sín ṳn;
- recompense divine favors.
- cí kâi ṳn tōa jû thiⁿ;
- this obligation cannot be expressed; the favor is great as the heavens.
- hûang ṳn;
- imperial favor.
- in ang cía ṳn-ài căi;
- they, the husband and wife, are very kind to each other.
- cía sĭ i kâi ṳn kong;
- this is his praiseworthy charity.
- môk ṳn tĭ-cṳ́;
- shower blessings on his followers.
- hú-ṳ́n;
- the Mayor of the Capital, a high officer whose jurisdiction is independent of the provincial governor, and restricted within the metropolitan prefecture.
- hú-ṳ́n pí kak séⁿ kâi hú tōa ho̤h cōi;
- the office of Mayor of the Capital is much higher than that of the provincial officers.
- seng-kiaⁿ ŭ cêk kâi hŏng-thien hú-ṳ́n;
- the Manchu capital has a mayor of the same rank as the mayor of Peking.
- i pat cò̤ kùe sŭn-thien hú-ṳu;
- he has been Mayor of Peking.
- ṳ́n kṳ suaⁿ lîm;
- to dwell in seclusion in the country.
- ṳ́n sṳ̆;
- a retired scholar, one never in office.
- ṳ́n gṳ́;
- an eliptical sentence.
- i ṳ́n-châng khì;
- she is very reticent.
- ṳ́n-ṳ́n thóiⁿ kìⁿ ŭ nâng lâi;
- made out with difficulty to perceive some person approaching.
- ṳ́n-ṳ́n thóiⁿ kìⁿ;
- saw indistinctly as in twilight or in thick fog.
- i ŏi ēng ṳ́n sin huap, sái kàu nâng thóiⁿ m̄ kìⁿ i;
- he knows how to apply the rules for rendering one's self invisible, so that people do not perceive him.