A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect (汕頭方言音義字典) / chia

奢

車

A wheeled vehicle; wheels; a machine having wheels.
bé-chia;

a wagon.
gû-chia;

an ox cart.
lín-chia;

a wheel-barrow.
chia-lín;

the wheel of a cart.
cŏ̤ chîa;

to go in a carriage.
thua chia;

to draw a cart.
kò cêk tieⁿ chia;

hired a carriage.
húe-lûn-chia;

a steam car.
cí ciah húe-lûn-cûn, sĭ àm chia a sĭ îang chia?

Is this steamboat a propeller or one with side wheels?
thīⁿ-saⁿ chia;

a sewing machine.
tâh chia;

to turn a pump with the feet.
lôi pê cúi-chia;

farming implements.
chia pêⁿ;

a carriage top.
chia sìⁿ;

the spokes of a wheel.
pháng se kâi chia;

a spinning wheel.
pue chia;

a flying machine.

賖

To buy or sell on credit.
chia sìo; enter in account, chia khṳt i;

sell to him on credit.
lṳ́ kio úa thòi chia;

have it charged in your account for me.
lṳ́ sĭ àiⁿ chia a àiⁿ hīn?

Do you wish to trade on credit or for cash?
hīn kah chia, cêk jît sio ŭ cêk peh ngṳ̂n hùe;

for cash and on credit, he daily disposes of a hundred dollars worth of goods.
cĭam chia kúi jît;

let me have it on credit for a few days.
cía chia sìo sĭ àng gûeh siu a sĭ àng coih siu?

Are these bills collected monthly, or at other fixed periods?
peh chia m̄ jû ngŏ-câp hīn;

a hundred per cent acredited is not so good as fifty per cent paid down.
bô̤ chia put sêng tìam, lăm chia tìam put sêng;

without giving credit shops could not be opened, but if credit were carelessly given shops would soon have to be closed.
chia lâi, hâiⁿ khṳ̀;

you take something in when you buy on credit, but you pay something out when you settle the bill.
cêk kâi m̄ chia;

no credit given.
chia kâi cōi kùe hīu kâi;

those who buy on credit are more than those who pay cash.
phìen chia;

buy on credit without meaning to pay.
chia sin hâi kū;

to incure a new debt in order to settle an old one.

Veined stone, used for the opaque white buttons of officers of the sixth rank.
i sĭ tì chia-khṳ téng, a sĭ tì cúi-ciaⁿ téng?

Does he wear a white stone button, or one of crystal?
lú kâi sìⁿ pèⁿ àiⁿ tàu chia-khṳ̂ hó̤ a tàu gê hó̤?

Which do you prefer having the handle of your fan made from, white stone or ivory?

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