Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/muiⁿ

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muiⁿ

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  • múiⁿ5861233
  • Beautiful; good-looking; excellent; delicious; happy.
múiⁿ-ńng;
a pretty girl.
múiⁿ-jîn;
handsome women; a belle.
múiⁿ-bī;
toothsome.
sĭ i cêk tn̄g kâi múiⁿ ì;
it is a kind thought of hers.
múiⁿ tang ŭ tíam put cok;
there is a little thing lacking to his complete happiness.
tăi-múiⁿ-kok;
the United States.
múiⁿ sṳ̄;
a delightful affair.
kun-cṳ́ sêng nâng cṳ múiⁿ;
good-breeding tends to the attainment of what is good.
  • mûiⁿ10506010
  • Small, trifling, insignificant, mean; minute, fine; in a slight degree; too; rather; hidden, subtle, obscure, recondite, abstruse; waning; to dwindle away.
mûiⁿ-bīo kâi tŏ̤-lí;
a doctrine hard to fathom.
káng-kìu kàu sòi-mûiⁿ căi;
explained it very minutely.
i kâi mêh mûiⁿ-sòi;
her pulse is very low.
mûiⁿ chìe;
a faint smile.
hŏ mûiⁿ-kíaⁿ; hŏ mûiⁿ-mûiⁿ; a drizzling, fine rain.
siaⁿ mûiⁿ-mûiⁿ;
a weak voice.
híen-mûiⁿ-kìaⁿ;
a microscope.
put kùe cêk tíam mûiⁿ ì;
only a small token of gratitude.
ìuⁿ-mûiⁿ ìuⁿ-mûiⁿ;
very minute.
i kâi jī nĕ mûiⁿ-mûiⁿ nē;
the letters are very small indeed.
chîang-mûiⁿ;
the crape myrtle.
pêh-mûiⁿ;
swallow-wort.