Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/phien

by Adele Marion Fielde

phien

• 偏phien68999
• Selfish; partial; addicted to; bent on; at or by the side; in polite language, by your help, as if the speaker was at the other's side, like a companion.

i bô̤ phien-sṳ;

he has no private ends in view.

bô̤ phien sim;

has no feeling of partiality.

i phien ài-sieh sòi kâi;

she is unduly partial to the youngest one.

cía sĭ i kâi phien-pâng sù chut kâi;

this one was born of his concubine.

bô̤ phien bô̤ ngŭi;

without favoritism or guile.

soiⁿ phien lío;

I have already eaten.

sù-cē, cía khah ŭ phien;

excuse me, with your leave I will eat.

i cò̤ cìaⁿ, i cò̤ phien;

the one acts fairly, the other selfishly.

phien-phien m̄ i lṳ́;

indeed I cannot agree with you.

phien tŏ̤ cêk pôiⁿ;

inclines to one side.

i phien àiⁿ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

he wants it so.

cía sĭ phien-phiah kâi lō;

this is a private road.

cìeⁿ-seⁿ kâi tŏ̤-lí sǹg sĭ phien, hŵn m̄ chŵn;

this reasoning is one sided, and not wholly candid.

• 蹁phien6901579
• To walk lamely, as from weak ankles.

i sĭ kîaⁿ khṳ̀ phien-phien nē;

he totters along.

i sĭ kha seⁿ lâi phien-phien;

he is naturally very weak in his legs.

• 篇phien6901189
• A page or section; a leaf of a book.

cí phien cṳ ŭ jîeh tn̂g?

How long is this section?

tàⁿ kàu cêk chîang phien;

gave a long, minute description.

cêk png cṳ jîeh cōi phien?

How many leaves are there in one volume?

i cêk jît cò̤ ŭ ku-ā phien bûn-cieⁿ;

in one day he writes several pages of an essay.

hien kùe nŏ̤ phien;

turn over two leaves.

• 編phien6871209
• To arrange, to compose.

i sĭ cò̤ hâng-lîm-īⁿ phien-siu;

he is a reviser of books in the National Academy.

i phien tŏ̤ tŏiⁿ kúi hō̤?

Under what mark is it ranged?

jī-hō̤ soiⁿ khṳ̀ phien chṳ̀-sŭ;

first arrange the labels in their order in the series.

chṳ̀-sŭ íⁿ-keng phien tīaⁿ-tîeh lío;

the order is already arranged.

i phien tŏ̤ tī-kâi ūi-chṳ̀ cŏ̤?

Which is the seat that he is to sit in?

• 翩phien6901249
• To fly about; to flatter.

pue khṳ̀ phien-phien nē;

fly liither and thither; to flutter about.

• 㓲phìen690189
• To slice off, to cut in thin flakes.

phìen pô̤h-pô̤h;

shave it up in very thin slices.

phìen tōa hue cē;

slice it up in broader slices.

phìen khah kău cū jūn-jūn;

if you slice it too thick it will be tough.

• 片phìen690910
• Anything thin and small, as a leaf, flake, strip, bit, chip or slip ; a classifier of plots of land, spaces of time, pieces of paper, and petals of flowers; a half; a section; to divide; to slice; a statement, a paper.

cêk phìen cúa;

a slip of paper.

cêk phìen ké ūe;

it is all false.

kuah kâi mîaⁿ-phìen-ìu, hó̤ lâi khap toaⁿ-phìen;

engrave a stamp for stamp- ing the name on visiting cards.

piaⁿ-phìen;

baroos camphor.

kôih phìen kâi càu-cieⁿ;

a memorial, with a supplement folded within it.

àiⁿ côih cò̤ jîeh cōi phìen?

How many slices do you want it cut into?

phìen cò̤ pó̤h phìen;

slice it into thin flakes.

phìen cò̤ nŏ̤ pôiⁿ;

slice it down through the middle.

âng pêh phìen;

thin slices of lean and fat pork in alternate layers.

chûn bô phìen-kíaⁿ-ni;

have scarcely a bit left.

îeh phìen;

drugs in thin shavings.

i sĭ cêk phìen hó̤ ì;

he has a good idea.

cu-phìen;

seed-pearls.

cêk phìen khang tī;

a strip of vacant land.

kieⁿ-phìen;

sliced ginger root.

• 騙phìen6911879
• To take an unfair advantage ; to cheat, to deceive, to delude, to lie.

úa bô̤ phìen lṳ́ kâi;

I am not deceiving you in regard to it.

khṳt i phìen khṳ̀;

was cheated by him.

ŭ phìen a bô̤?

Is there any imposition about it?

kuang-phìen;

to befool.

phìen-kêk;

a plan for swindling.

khi-phìen;

to cheat out of; to impose upon.

• 瓣phìen6529714
• The carpels of oranges and similar fruits.

peh nŏ̤ phìen kaⁿ;

took off two sections from the orange.

peh phìen īu pun i;

broke off a section of the pumelo and gave it to her.

sǹg phìen;

the scales from a bulb of garlic.