Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/kuang
kuang
- ŭ kuang-chái;
- has great brilliancy.
- jît kâi kuang ŏi sīa mâk;
- the brilliancy of the sun dazzles the eyes.
- i mêⁿ-kùa ŏi hâu-kuang;
- it corruscates in the night.
- tī-hng kuang-kéng hó̤ căi;
- the outlook from the place is very fine.
- ngán côiⁿ kâi kuang-kéng căi-seⁿ?
- What are the immediate prospects?
- ciam lṳ́ kâi kuang;
- get the benefit of your light.
- ŭ thang hó̤ khṳt nâng ciam kuang cē cìaⁿ hó̤;
- it is well if you have anything wherewith to benefit others.
- khṳt i cîah kàu ceng kuang, mâuⁿ kuang;
- all eaten up clean by him.
- i sĭ lău kuang-kùn;
- he is a swindler.
- i sĭ cang cêk têng phûe, tieⁿ tó̤ cò̤ kuang-kùn pńg;
- he makes use of a layer of fur, in order to appear to be something which he is not.
- kuang-mêng cìaⁿ-tai;
- open and above board.
- kuang-im sṳ̆ cìⁿ, jît gûeh jû so̤;
- time flies like an arrow, and the days and months like shuttles.
- khṳt úa cĭa kuang cē;
- grant the luster of your presence at my table.
- kuang có, ĭo cong;
- renders his ancestors illustrious and his clan glorious.
- îong-kuang;
- honor, glory.
- lṳ́ mài kuang úa;
- do not deceive me.
- i sĭ àiⁿ kuang lṳ́ khṳ̀ bōi, lṳ́ m̄ hó̤ thiaⁿ i;
- he wants to delude you into going off where he can sell you, do not you listen to him.
- lṳ́ màiⁿ khṳt nâng kuang khṳ̀;
- do not let people mislead you by delusive promises.
- i kâi ūe to sĭ kuang-kuang phìen;
- his talk is all very misleading.
- cía sĭ tó̤ kuang a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ hùe kâi;
- this is to fool children with.
- i tó̤ kuang m̄ hío hùe kâi;
- he deceives the ignorant.
- i bô̤ kuang nâng kâi cîⁿ, bô̤ kuang nâng kâi ngṳ̂n: lṳ́ àiⁿ li sìu i, m̄ li hiah;
- he does not fool people out of their money: trust him if you choose to, if not let it alone.
- i sĭ tó̤ kuang-láu nâng;
- he is swindling people.
- úa sĭ kuang lṳ́ kâi;
- I was hoaxing you.
- kúang kîaⁿ si cì;
- distribute alms widely.
- i ío kúang kau;
- he has a more extensive acquaintance.
- lâi khṳ̀ kúang kìen-sek cē;
- let us enlarge our sphere of observation.
- lṳ́ ío kúang kìen;
- you have had a wider experience.
- líang kúang cóng-tok;
- viceroy over the two Provinces of Canton and Kwangsi.
- cúi li-li kŭang chut lâi;
- the water keeps spurting through.
- kŭang tùi khang chut lâi kâi;
- what spurts out through the aperture.
- in tŏ̤ hṳ́-kò̤ kŭang chut lâi;
- the steam gushes out there.
- toi kŭang;
- the dike has sprung aleak.
- hueh li-li kŭang chut lâi;
- the blood gushed forth continually.