Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/chiah
chiah
- i kâi bûn-cieⁿ sĭ ka-kī cò̤ kâi a sĭ chiah nâng cò̤ kâi?
- Did he compose his essay himself or did he employ some one to do it for him?
- nŏ̤ pang lóng-cóng chiah kieh lâi sie tàu;
- the two parties each engaged workmen and rivaled each the other in the display made.
- chiah sek;
- Chinese flesh color.
- chiah pò;
- nankeen.
- chiah kim;
- red gold.
- kim chiah, ngṳ̂n pêh;
- gold is red and silver white.
- chiah tì;
- the god of fire.
- chiah cṳ́;
- a young infant.
- chiah tău;
- the equator.
- pak chiah kha;
- barefoot.
- chiah sin;
- nude.
- chiah sin lò thói;
- stark naked.
- pak-chiah ka-lit;
- stripped to the waist.
- chiah-kwt chiah-kwt;
- red in the face.
- chiah mâk tih;
- sallow eyed.
- chiah kha cheⁿ chíu;
- barefooted and brown handed.
- mīu seⁿ lâi chiah-khng chiah-khng;
- has a brunette complexion.
- mīn âng-kòng-chiah;
- blushed deeply.
- o pûi chiah tōiⁿ;
- tough and strong from exposure.
- chiah sim ūi kok;
- a guileless monarch.
- chiah kháu jît;
- days marked in the calendar by red mouthed animals.
- kíaⁿ-jît chiah kháu;
- this is a day apt to be unlucky.
- chiah tī choiⁿ-lí;
- unoccupied wastes.
- cîeh-chiah;
- umber.
- cí kâi pò seⁿ chiah khoih;
- this cloth has unbleached threads in it.
- chiah hŏi;
- pickled crabs.
- khṳt chì chiah tîeh;
- wounded by a thorn.
- kha chiah tîeh chì;
- got a thorn in his foot.
- tîeh kîaⁿ cṳ́-sòi, màiⁿ chiah tîeh àng-le;
- must walk carefully and not get cut by the potsherds.
- i kâi chíu tèng chiah ŭ jī;
- he has letters tattooed on his arm.