Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/mioⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

míoⁿ

• 秒míoⁿ5921154
• A second in a degree; a ten thousandth; a minute.

gûeh sĭ sîh chit hun kah sì míoⁿ lâk hut;

in the eclipse of the moon, the shadow extended over seven minutes, four seconds and six tenths of a second.

• 妙míoⁿ592384
• Cleverness.

khìo-míoⁿ;

penetration; sharpness of insight.

i kâi khìo-mîoⁿ hó̤ căi;

has great quickness and depth of penetration.

i sui-sĭ sòi, sĭm sĭ khìo-míoⁿ;

though he is small he is very astute.

bô̤ khìo bô̤ míoⁿ;

has no insight.

• 渺míoⁿ592859
• Vast; vague; boundless.

míoⁿ-míoⁿ mâng-mâng, bô̤ suaⁿ bô̤-sṳ̆;

a boundless expanse with no land in view.

• 杳míoⁿ1076754
• Obscure, somber; mysterious.

míoⁿ-mâng kâi sṳ̄;

a mystery.

míoⁿ-míoⁿ mâng-mâng;

unintelligible; dark and vague; nothing to be guided by.

• 藐míoⁿ59214014
• To look down on; to treat haughtily.

míoⁿ-sĭ nâng;

look upon people with disdain.

i khah míoⁿ-sĭ i;

he treated him too contemptuously.

míoⁿ-sĭ nâng thài sĭm;

excessively supercilious toward people.

• 苗mîoⁿ5911405
• Descendants; progeny.

cí kâi sĭ i kâi mîoⁿ-ī;

these are his descendants.

sái kàu i bŏi tn̆g-có̤h kṳn-mîoⁿ;

so that he may not be without posterity.

mîoⁿ-kíaⁿ;

the aborigines in Kwei-chau.

sek-mîoⁿ;

half civilized aborigines.

cheⁿ mîoⁿ;

savage aborigines.

• 猺mîoⁿ10769410
• A wild dog, or jackal; applied by the Cantonese to a tribe of aborigines living in the north-west

of the province, and reputed to have tails.

mîoⁿ-jîn; mîoⁿ-cṳ́; mîoⁿ kíaⁿ;

the aborigines of Canton province.

• 妙mĭoⁿ592384
• Wonderful; mysterious; subtle.

àu-mĭoⁿ;

hard to fathom; occult.

mĭoⁿ ă!

It is wonderful!