Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/jui
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júi
- júi, júi;
- aye, aye; to be sure.
- cèng nâng lóng-cóng júi-júi, bô̤ nâng káⁿ kêh i;
- every one agreed with whatever he proposed, and none dared remonstrate with him.
- hùaⁿ nâng ùi i kâi sì, mih sṳ̄ to sĭ júi-júi, nâp-nâp;
- they all fear his power, and assent to and aquiesce in everything he says.
- jûi sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ úa cū m̆;
- that being the way it is, I will have nothing to do with it.
- jûi-tôk lṳ́ cêk nâng sĭ hó̤;
- you are the only one fit for it.
- jûi sĭ lṳ́ úa cai tīaⁿ;
- you and I are the only ones who know.
- cài saⁿ sṳ-jûi;
- pondered it over and over.
- kháu sŏng, sim jûi;
- the mind meditates upon it, while the mouth chants it.
- lṳ́ hó̤ ka-kī sṳ-jûi;
- you think it over within your own mind.
- lîm sí kâi jŭi cok;
- last will and testament.
- sĭ kó nâng kâi jŭi kà;
- it is the instruction bequeathed to us from the ancients.
- sĭ soiⁿ có kâi jŭi ngân;
- those were the dying words of his ancestor.
- i a-pĕ jŭi-mĕng cang cí koiⁿ phò pun cí kâi kíaⁿ;
- his father left orders that this shop be given to this son.
- cía sĭ tâng soiⁿ jŭi lô̤h lâi kâi;
- this was handed down from former times.
- jŭi sit mûeh-kĭaⁿ;
- articles left behind and lost.
- jŭi chûn jîeh cōi cṳ-cheh pun kíaⁿ-sun-hùe thâk;
- left many books for his descendants to study.
- tăi-hŭam kíaⁿ-sun to hó̤ tàⁿ-cò̤ sĭ có-pĕ kâi jŭi thói;
- all the descendants may say that they are the relicts of their ancestor.
- soiⁿ nâng kâi jŭi huap;
- the rules bequeathed by those gone before.
- kháu jŭi châi;
- examine the scholars who entered once but did not pass.
- jŭi pak kíaⁿ;
- a posthumous son.
- có jŭi kâi mûeh-ngîap;
- property inherited from ancestors.
- toaⁿ-toaⁿ jŭi-chûn cí kâi kíaⁿ;
- left only this son.