Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/phin
phin
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- The red sulphuret of arsenic.
- tâk kùe phin-sng;
- more poisonous than arsenic.
- kĕ phín;
- of a low grade.
- hĭa phín;
- mean; of low rank.
- kêk phín;
- the highest rank.
- tng chîo it phín;
- holds the highest rank under government.
- i pĭ phín tńg khṳ̀;
- he was cashiered and sent home.
- phín chut lâi cò̤ ti-kūiⁿ;
- degraded in office and transferred to a district-magistracy.
- phín lô̤h né-keng;
- dismissed to the palace for discarded concubines.
- phîn tìeⁿ;
- the cloth or paper covering a screen.
- úa tŏ̤ kau-íⁿ phîn kò̤;
- leaning on the back of a chair.
- pái cêk hù cé-kang, kìaⁿ-phîn;
- set out a pair of ornaments consisting of a vase and a pier-glass.
- ûi phîn;
- enclose with a folding screen.
- phîn-síam;
- removable, folding doors.
- pâk kâi ie-phîn;
- tie on a loin-cloth.
- chíaⁿ nâng cò̤ kò̤ phîn bûn;
- invite some one to compose stanzas, suitable to write on a screen.
- i kâi tăng-kíaⁿ àiⁿ khṳ̀ phîn i kâi o-kng;
- the little thin pickle pot is going to cast itself against the big black water-jar.
- phîn cúi-nî;
- to skip stones along the surface of the water.
- khì khí lâi cū kâi i phîn phîn tīo;
- if he gets wrathy he will dash himself upon it and smash it in pieces.
- khîeh kò̤ cng-kŏ̤ khṳ̀ phîn i;
- took a brickbat, and hit him with it.
- cía sĭ cang ˘nng khṳ̀ phîn cîeh-thâu;
- this is pitting an egg against a stone.
- phîn kúaiⁿ;
- the apple is sometimes thus called.
- phîn-khîong nâng;
- poor people.
- kun-cṳ́ kâi nâng uaⁿ phîn;
- the princely man is content even in poverty.
- ke phîn, chin lău;
- poor, and with aged parents.
- phîn-cūaⁿ cṳ kau put khó̤ bûang;
- those who were our companions when we were in poverty, should not be forgotten.
- cêk phîn jû sói;
- destitute as if everything had been washed away.