Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/hak
hak
- kẃn-hak;
- to control.
- kẃn-hâk i m̄ tîo;
- cannot govern him.
- hak ĕ ŭ jîeh cōi nâng?
- How many are there under his authority?
- i sĭ i hak ĕ kâi nâng;
- he is under his authority.
- bô̤ nâng kwn bô̤ nâng hak;
- nobody exercises any control over it.
- sĭu nâng kẃn-hak;
- under authority.
- sim-heng hak-tâk;
- intelligent, having tact.
- hak-hak tâk-tâk;
- farseeing.
- úa thìaⁿ-kìⁿ cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ sim lăi cū khui hak;
- when I heard that said, I understood what it all meant.
- kak kìⁿ;
- visit a superior in office.
- pài hak;
- go to visit an official superior.
- ĕ-sôk hak-kìⁿ cīeⁿ-si;
- subordinates visit their superiors in office.
- cẃn-sêng pài-hak, ṳ̂ sṳ̄ put ēng;
- solely to pay respects to my superior and for no other business. (Written on the visitor's card).
- tòng-hak;
- a fit of apoplexy.
- cí khí pēⁿ sĭ tòng-hak, m̄ sĭ tòng-sú;
- this is apoplexy, not sunstroke.
- thô tōiⁿ-hâk tōiⁿ-hâk nē;
- the soil is very stiff and hard.
- cò̤-nî pû, cîah tîeh cong-kú hâk-hâk nē;
- however much it is boiled, it is always very hard when you come to eat it.
- cí khí lok-lok bô̤ ēng, tîeh hiá tōiⁿ-hâk tōiⁿ-hâk kâi cìaⁿ hó̤;
- these are watery and useless, those firm-fleshed and solid ones are the good ones.
- kût tîeh tōiⁿ-hâk tōiⁿ-hâk nē;
- it is very solid and hard when you dig into it.
- hâk-sîp;
- to learn so as to retain.
- hak-seng;
- a pupil.
- phak hâk;
- versatile aquirements.
- hâk cèng; hâk thâi; hâk īⁿ;
- a provincial literary chancellor.
- tăi hâk;
- the Great Science; a large school.
- sío hâk;
- a small school.
- tăi-hâk-sṳ̆;
- cabinet ministers.
- lăi ko̤h hâk-sṳ̆;
- members of the inner council.