Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/choiⁿ
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choiⁿ
- câp peh kìe-cò̤ cêk choiⁿ;
- ten hundreds are called one thousand.
- choiⁿ suaⁿ bw̄n cúi;
- over innumerable mountains and seas; very far off.
- khèng cok choiⁿ chiu;
- congratulate the empress on her birthday.
- choiⁿ lí bé;
- a swift courier.
- choiⁿ kim bói chù, bw̄n kim bói lîn;
- thousands of dollars may buy a house, but millions of dollars will not secure good neighbours.
- choiⁿ-bw̄n m̄ hó̤ khṳ̀;
- beyond all doubt, it is inexpedient to go.
- tek-chóiⁿ;
- a bamboo broom.
- siu-chóiⁿ;
- a stiff broom.
- chóiⁿ cheng-khih;
- scrub it clean with a broom.
- koi-mô̤ⁿ chóiⁿ;
- a feather brush.
- cang chóiⁿ;
- a coir broom.
- hĭⁿ chóiⁿ;
- an ear brush.
- chóiⁿ pn̄g-lōi;
- scour the skimmer.
- chóiⁿ thûn;
- the annual house-cleaning.
- kio koi pêⁿ-īeⁿ, m̄ chóiⁿ cū bô̤ cîah;
- is like the fowls, that must either scratch or go without food.
- koi tó̤ chóiⁿ thô-ĕ;
- the hen is scratching the ground for food.
- sĭ i chòiⁿ i khṳ̀ cò̤;
- it was he who put him up to do it.
- úa pńg-pńg m̄ lâi, sĭ khṳt i chòiⁿ kàu thíam cìaⁿ lâi;
- I should not have come of myself, but I was pestered so constantly by him that I came.
- lṳ́ hó̤ chòiⁿ i nā kò̤;
- you should urge him to stay there.
- chôiⁿ keⁿ si;
- silk-worms spin silk.
- chôiⁿ si;
- the silk spun by silk-worms.
- chôiⁿ-kóiⁿ;
- cocoons.
- chôiⁿ tāu;
- the chrysalis.
- chôiⁿ îah;
- the moth.
- chôiⁿ n̆ng;
- the eggs.
- cí khí chôiⁿ ío tōa tîo;
- this sort of silk-worm is large.
- chôiⁿ cîah sng-sûi hîeh;
- silk-worms feed on mulberry leaves.
- chī chôiⁿ;
- to keep silk-worms.
- jû chôiⁿ cîah hîeh;
- like the consumption of mulberry leaves by silk-worms.
- ŏ̤ chôiⁿ bâi;
- beetling eyebrows.