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

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葷

• Things forbidden to those who fast.

• nŏ̤ hun nŏ̤ sù sì īeⁿ;

  four sorts, two of which are of kinds forbidden to those who fast, and two of the kinds that may be used by those who fast.

紛

• Confused; mixed up; ill-assorted.

• nâng-bé hun-hun;

  a motley crowd.

• sṳ̄-bŭ hun-hun cōi căi;

  multifarious business.

• tī-hng hun-lw̆n;

  the place is all in confusion.

吩

• To direct; to order.

• hun-hù;

  to order.

• úa cò̤-nî hun-hù lṳ́, lṳ́ tîeh thiaⁿ;

  whatever I tell you to do, you must do.

• lṳ́ lâi, úa àiⁿ hun-hù lṳ́ kâi ūe;

  come here, I have something I wish to direct you about.

• i bô̤ hun bô̤ hù cò̤ i khṳ̀;

  he went off without having received any directions.

惛

• The perceptions confused; dull.

• hun-mîⁿ, m̄ cai nâng;

  stupid even to insensibility.

• i kâi sim hun-kông;

  his mind is confused.

分

• To separate; to distinguish between; the second place in decimals; tenths.

• hun-khui;

  to separate.

• hun cò̤ nŏ̤ chiu;

  separate them into two bunches.

• hun-lî;

  set apart.

• hun-sùaⁿ;

  to scatter.

• ŭ hun-pîet;

  there is a distinction between them.

• pun piaⁿ tú-gṳ̆;

  detach troops to repulse them.

• i ŭ hun-pûi;

  he has a bonus out of it.

• hun-mêng;

  distinguish clearly.

• hun-hun mêng-mêng;

  distinctly marked.

• úa thóiⁿ m̄ hun-mêng;

  I do not see it distinctly.

• táng i lâi hun-hwt;

  wait until he comes and divides up and sends off.

• hun-pĭen sĭ hui;

  argue the point.

• i cò̤-nî cò̤ sṳ̄ bô̤ huu bô̤ hío?

  Why does he act without discrimination?

• i mih sṳ̄ hun-hun hío-hío;

  in everything he exercises discrimination.

• kio tōa nâng hun iu;

  condoles with his superior.

• hun phài;

  to sort out for distribution.

• i kâi ūe tàⁿ lâi ŭ hun ŭ chùn;

  what he says is lucidly stated.

• i cò̤ sṳ̄ bò̤ hun chùn;

  he acts without method.

• hun hâu to bô̤ kíam i kâi;

  I owe him nothing whatever.

• câp-hun hó̤;

  wholly satisfactory.

• hun cò̤ nŏ̤ ē;

  separate it into two portions.

• úa téng-tîeh saⁿ-hun-pùaⁿ tăng;

  I weighed it, and it is three and a half tenths of an tael in weight.

• lṳ́ cêk tǹg cîah kúi hun bí?

  How much rice do you eat at a meal?

• lṳ́ àiⁿ ēng hun pang a àiⁿ ēng chùn pang?

  Do you wish to use boards that are under or over an inch in thickness?

• i ŭ kúi hun hàuⁿ;

  he is partly willing.

• hek pêh lâng hun;

  it is difficult to distinguish between the black and the white.

• sṳ̄ cōi căi, bŏi tit hun sin khṳ̀ nín kò̤;

  I have so much to do that I cannot get away to go to your house.

• kak nâng hun thâu khṳ̀ lí;

  let each go about his particular business.

• ūe hun líang thâu;

  tell each separately what he is to do.

烟

• Opium; tobacco.

• hun-tâng;

  a tobacco or opium pipe.

• cîah hun cē;

  take a smoke.

• sêk-hun;

  dry fine cut tobacco.

• cheⁿ-hun;

  fresh smoking tobacco.

• n̂g-hun;

  yellow tobacco.

• o-hun;

  dark colored tobacco.

• cúi-hun;

  tobacco that is smoked through a water pipe.

• lṳ̆-sòng hun;

  Manilla cigars and cigaretts.

• cúi-hun cúa-bûe;

  a taper used for lighting a water pipe.

• a-phìen hun;

  opîum.

• a-phìen hun-tâng;

  an opium pipe.

• i cêk hù hun-kŭ jû căi;

  his set of utensils for smoking opium are very handsome.

• hun-tō̤;

  tobacco pouch.

• hun-âp;

  opium box.

• phīⁿ-hun;

  snuff.

• hngk phīⁿ-hun;

  take snuff.

• i ŭ cîah tōa hun;

  he smokes opium.

• hun-teng;

  a raised platform for opium smokers to lie upon.

• hun-pho;

  a couch for opium smoking.

• hun-thie;

  opium spoon.

• hun pûaⁿ;

  an opium smoker’s tray.

• hun kẃn;

  an opium dealer’s establishment.

• hun càng;

  opium dens.

• hun thô;

  opium balls.

• hun ki;

  tobacco stalks.

• hun-sái màiⁿ khà cêk koiⁿ;

  do not scatter the ashes of the tobacco about.

• lṳ́ kâi hun-ín khin, i kâi hun-ín tăng;

  your opium habit is not so completely fixed upon you as his is upon him.

• hàm i lâi cuang hun;

  call him to hold the opium at the smoker’s pipe.

• cṳ́ hun;

  to clarify opium and prepare it for smoking.

• hun kò̤;

  cakes of opium.

• hun ca; a-phìen sái;

  the residuum from the pipes of opium smokers.

• phìⁿ-hun hû;

  a snuff bottle.

• pō sêk-hun;

  chews tobacco.

• îeⁿ hun;

  foreign tobacco.

婚

• To marry a wife.

• hun-in;

  marriage.

• hun-in kâi sṳ̄ sĭ chiet-ìo sṳ̄;

  marriage is a thing of great importance.

• i līam lâi kio i hâh hun;

  her birthday is said to be accordant with his.

• tô̤h jît sêng hun;

  choose a lucky day for the consummation of a marriage.

• táng nî búe cìaⁿ lâi khṳt i ŵn hun;

  wait till the end of the year and then let them marry.

• chíaⁿ nâng lâi cĭeⁿ hun-cṳ;

  invite some one to prepare the marriage contract.

• lâm hun, ńng kè;

  men take wives, and women wed.

• hûang-sĭang tăi hun;

  tho Emperor’s marriage.

• i sĭ cí pak ûi hun kâi;

  he had betrothed a wife before he was born.

• i cìaⁿ sin hun;

  he is of marriageable age.

• hun phùe;

  contract a marriage.

• têng hun;

  a second marriage.

• thò̤ thâu hun;

  a marriage contracted after the girl first betrothed to him had died.

熏

• To fumigate; smoky; smoke.

• hun i ta;

  dry by fumigation.

• màiⁿ khṳt in hun tîeh;

  do not let it get smoked.

• hun kàu mâk-cap lâu;

  so smoky that the tears ran.

• hun nío-chṳ́ khang;

  fumigate a rathole.

• sie kàu pi-pi-hun;

  scorched so that it smokes.

• hun koi, hun ah;

  smoked fowls and ducks.

• hun tṳ-thúi;

  smoked hams.

• hun kàu chiah-pauh chiah-pauh;

  smoked till it is brown and blistered.

• in-hun kàu cêk koiⁿ o-o;

  smoked till the whole room is blackened.

• líam máng-hun, hun máng;

  light a mosquito torch, and smoke out the mosquitoes.

• phīⁿ tîeh chàu húe hun;

  smells of smoke.

• hun sí;

  suffocated by smoke.

昏

• Dusk; evening; dull; confused.

• n̂g-hun;

  twilight.

• hun-àm;

  dusk.

• jît íⁿ-keng haⁿ-hun;

  it is already dark.

• haⁿ-hun kâi sî-hāu, cū thóiⁿ m̄ kìⁿ;

  it was in the gloaming so I could not see.

• hun kun cū sìn châm-chîn;

  a benighted prince trusts disloyal courtiers.

• hun-lw̆n;

  obscure; befogged.

• ût kàu hun-thâu hun-náu;

  slept till dazed.

• hun-mîⁿ;

  dazed; bewildered.

• cîah kàu hun-hun mîⁿ-mîⁿ;

  drank till he was fuddled.

• lṳ́ màiⁿ kun-kông;

  don’t be stupid.

• thâu-khak hîn kàu hun-hun kông-kông;

  my head was so dizzy that I was completely stupified.

• thìaⁿ kàu hun, cang cúi bū i chéⁿ;

  he has swooned from pain, blow water upon him to reanimate him.

憤

• Strong feeling; impatient zeal.

• i cē khéng hwt hún cū cò̤ tit sêng;

  if he would get roused in regard to it, it would soon be accomplished.

• nâng tîeh ŏi hwt hún lîp cì cìaⁿ ŭ ēng;

  people must become interested in the thing, and get their minds made up to do it, then something can be effected.

渾

• Entire; the whole; the mass.

• hún-kău kâi nâng;

  the whole body.

• cí kù cṳ sĭ hún-hún cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ, bô̤ kói-thiah mêng-pêh;

  this sentence in its entirety says thus, its parts are not analytically expounded.

• i put kùe hún-hún cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ tīaⁿ-tīaⁿ;

  this is the substance of his remarks and nothing more.

鴿

• A dove; a pigeon.

• hún-cío;

  doves.

• hún-cío tû;

  a dove-cote.

• cêk tùi hún-cío;

  a pair of doves.

• ēng hún-cío lâi tòa sìn;

  make use of pigeons for carrying letters.

粉

• Meal; flour; powder; powdered, comminuted; to put on powder or pigments.

• mi-hún;

  wheaten flour.

• bí-hún-kuaⁿ;

  vermicelli.

• hún-tîo;

  maccaroni.

• tāu hún;

  flour made from peas or beans.

• cîⁿ-chang hún;

  flour made from water chestnuts.

• lîang-hún;

  potato flour.

• lîang-hún càng;

  dumplings made from potato flour.

• ngó-hún;

  arrow-root.

• cŏ̤-hún;

  white powder used as a cosmetic.

• in-cîⁿ hún buah kàu âng-âng;

  made red with rouge.

• sang-hún;

  toilet-powder.

• ngói kàu hún-hún;

  triturate it to a fine powder.

• khòng kàu i hún kut chùi si;

  beat him to a jelly.

• hún chîeⁿ;

  whitewash a wall.

• hún i pêh;

  whitewash it.

• hún âng hún âng;

  very fair, as if painted red and white.

• hún sek;

  a specious appearance.

• hún-sek kâi ūe;

  specious promises.

• hún-sek kàu thóiⁿ m̄ chut;

  furbished up so that one could not discover the fraud.

• hún pâi;

  a painted board used by boys in learning to write.

• bói sang hún tói kâi châ ôi;

  buy a pair of wooden shoes having painted soles.

忿

• Anger; resentment.

• cêk sî cṳ hún;

  momentary anger.

• hún-nō̤ⁿ;

  wrathful.

奮

• Impetuous; urgent; prompt.

• hùn-cì thâk cṳ;

  study with ardor.

• ci kâi nâng chut tīn sĭm sĭ hùn-îong;

  this man goes forth to battle with undaunted courage.

• hùn-lâk khṳ̀ cò̤;

  promptly go and do it.

訓

• To instruct; to lead in the right way; to caution.

• kà-hùn;

  to teach.

• kà-hùn kíaⁿ-tĭ;

  to instruct one’s children.

• ke-hùn;

  home teachings.

• hùn-līen piaⁿ-bé;

  drill the troops.

• hùn tău;

  to indoctrinate.

• hùn-sī;

  to direct.

• lṳ́ tîeh thiaⁿ i kà-hùn;

  you must heed his precepts.

• cía sĭ bô̤ nâng kà-hùn kâi kíaⁿ-tĭ;

  this is an undisciplined lad.

• cía phêng-jît sĭ bô̤ kà bô̤ hùn cìaⁿ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

  it is through lack of training that he is thus.

鑽

• To bore; to pierce.

• tîeh khîeh cǹg-kíaⁿ cìaⁿ hùn tit lô̤h;

  you must take a gimlet to it, then you can pierce it.

• ēng keng-hùn lâi hùn;

  take an angur and bore it.

• hùn sie-lîn-thàng;

  bore it through.

楦

• A last for making shoes or boots; to form on a last.

• ôi hùn;

  a boot last.

• i kâi hùn-thâu hùn lâi hó̤ chēng;

  his last forms it into a shape pleasant to wear.

紋

• Lines; marks; creases.

• cúi hûn;

  ripples.

• chíu hûn;

  lines in the hand.

• hûeⁿ hûn;

  horizontal marks.

• tît hûn;

  perpendicular lines.

• bô̤ hûn bô̤ ciah;

  left no trace.

• nĕ jìo-jìo, cĕng-cĕng hûn;

  all wrinkled and creased.

• nìo cêk cūe hûn;

  make a crease.

• cih khṳ̀ seⁿ hûn;

  creased by folding.

• ut kàu tît-tît, bô̤ hûn;

  ironed out straight and smooth.

• i kâi sí hûn phû lío;

  he has the signs of death upon him.

• i seⁿ-sêng kâi gō̤ hûn phû;

  he looks as if he were starving.

• i mīn téng ŭ im-tek hûn;

  he looks like a good man.

魂

• The shade; the manes; the mind; the wits; the faculties.

• lêng-hûn;

  the spirit; the soul.

• hûn-phek;

  the immortal part; the spirits of man.

• sam hûn chit phek;

  the three ghosts, and the seven spirits of man.

• kiaⁿ kàu sit hûn;

  terrified out of his wits.

• hûn m̄ tŏ̤ sin;

  he is out of his mind.

• wn hûn lṳ́ sùaⁿ;

  the unrevenged ghost will not be quiet.

• i kâi im-hûn cong-kú m̄ sio;

  his spirit will never take its departure.

• hûe hûn tńg lâi;

  the returning spirit comes to the tablet, (before the 49th day after death).

• hāi i kiaⁿ kàu hûn bô̤;

  frightened him out of his senses.

• cē thóiⁿ hûn cū bô̤;

  as soon as he saw it he lost his wits.

• cêk hûe cū hûn sùaⁿ;

  after the return, the spirit was at rest.

• hûn māng-kìⁿ peh kàu suaⁿ téng;

  dreamed that I climbed to the mountain top.

• i kâi hûn híen-sin khṳt i thóiⁿ;

  his ghost appeared to them.

• ín hûn; cie hûn;

  to lead the spirit home from abroad.

• siu i kâi hûn;

  take possession of his mind.

• hẃn hûn, ûah khí lâi;

  to come to life again.

痕

• A scar, scratch, crack, or flaw.

• màiⁿ mûeh seⁿ hûn;

  do not scratch it.

• sieⁿ hûn;

  a scar from a wound.

• mâk-cap hûn;

  traces of tears.

• bŏi lò hun-ciah;

  has left no visible trace.

• poiⁿ hûn;

  small pox marks.

• mīn-tèng cêk cūe hûn sĭ kuah tîeh kâi a sĭ pûah tîeh kâi?

  Was the scar on your face made by a cut or by a fall?

• pit cūe hûn;

  has cracked.

• ku-ā kò̤ pit hûn;

  several of them have flaws in them.

雲

• Clouds; cloudy.

• phû hûn hŏ;

  rain clouds are gathering.

• hûn bū;

  cloudy.

• múaⁿ thiⁿ hûn;

  the sky is all overcast.

• cêk tah o hûn;

  a black cloud.

• pêh hûn pìⁿ cò̤ âng bûn;

  the clouds are turning red.

• hûn cia kàu pùaⁿ suaⁿ;

  the clouds reach half way down the mountains.

• hûn-thâu;

  a thunder-cloud.

• hṳ lâng hûn;

  a mackerel sky.

• thong thiⁿ lóng-cóng sĭ o hûn;

  the whole sky is black with clouds.

• hûn khui kìⁿ jît;

  the clouds are breaking.

• hûn khui kâi khang-khiah, thóiⁿ-kìⁿ thiⁿ nêk;

  there is a rift in the cloud, and the blue sky appears.

• hûn sio, hŏ sùaⁿ;

  the clouds are disappearing, and the rain diminishing.

• thóiⁿ-kìⁿ tŏ̤ hûn-twn téng;

  saw it among the clouds.

• hûn tìo kha;

  the cloud is lifting from the earth.

• cí tah hûn pue khù kĕ-kĕ;

  this cloud drifts along very low down.

• phah hûn póiⁿ;

  to strike the cloudy board; to announce visitors at a yamun or monastery by tapping an iron plate.

混

• In disorder; promiscuously; turbid; chaotic.

• mông-mông hŭn-hŭn;

  dark; confused.

• hŭn nău;

  confused clamor.

• mńg hŭn kùe jît;

  it is a troublesome world.

• lâm ńng hŭn câp;

  a heterogeneous crowd of men and women.

• hŭn-tŭn;

  chaotic.

• thiⁿ tī īa ŭ sî ŏi hŭn-tŭn;

  the heavens and the earth are sometimes indistinguishable through being mixed up together.

• hŭn-hŭn tŭn-tŭn;

  irretrievably mixed up.

• su kùe màiⁿ lâi hŭn kha hŭn chúi;

  it would have been better if he had had nothing to do with it.

分

• A share; a portion; a dividend; the part one acts; the duties of a post.

• pun cò̤ saⁿ hūn pêⁿ tōa;

  divide it into three equal parts.

• kâi nâng cêk hūn;

  give a portion to each.

• saⁿ hūn thiu cêk;

  take out one third.

• hūn gūa;

  what is outside one’s own share.

• kúi hūn tĭⁿ;

  partly full.

• sì-hūn lô̤h cêk hūn;

  make use of one quarter of it.

• îeh lâk hūn cîah cêk hūn;

  take one sixth of the medicine.

• àiⁿ cham kúi hūn lô̤h khṳ̀?

  What proportion of the whole shall I put in?

• ke hūn, cíe hūn;

  a greater or lesser portion.

• síu hūn;

  content with his lot.

• síu i kâi pńg hūn;

  attends to his own business.

• uaⁿ hūn síu kí;

  mind your own business.

• khĭa hūn;

  make up a deficiency by each supplying an equal sum.

• phōiⁿ cêk hūn lói-mûeh khṳ̀ sàng i;

  render to him a portion of the presents.

• cía i bô̤ hūn;

  he has no part in this.

• kó hūn;

  to take shares in.

• cía sĭ i kâi ŵn hūn;

  this is what he has a liking for.

• nán kúi nâng lâi hak cêk hūn, ĕ jît thàng lío tōa sòi hūn cìe pun;

  let us take a share togethər, and afterward when there is income from it declare a dividend.

• mĭaⁿ hūn;

  the same lot for life.

• mīaⁿ hūn m̄ hó̤ lw̆n;

  those whose fates are joined for life should not be at variance.

• cí kâi nâng m̄ uaⁿ hūn;

  this person is meddlesome.

• kùe hūn;

  officious; beyond what properly belongs to one’s functions.

• tàⁿ kùe hūn ūe;

  say more than belongs to one’s part.

• pńg hūn;

  one’s own duty or office.

• i pńg hūn tîeh cíeⁿ-seⁿ cò̤;

  that is what properly pertains to his office; that is his duty.

• kak nâng kak nâng kâi ceh-hūn;

  each has his special duty.

• i cìeⁿ-seⁿ sǹg sĭ wt-hūn;

  in so doing he may be considered to have overstepped his proper sphere.

• àiⁿ cò̤ kúi hūn khui?

  How many parts is it to be divided into?

• i kâi hūn-siaⁿ cōi;

  he has a large proportion.

• i sòi hūn, i tōa hūn;

  this one gets a small, and that one a large portion.

• i kâi seng-lí lṳ́ ŭ chap hūn a bô̤?

  Have you anything invested in his business?

• ṳ́a ŭ chap-hūn;

  I have an interest in it.

• sĭm-mih sṳ̄ lṳ́ to ŭ hūn;

  you meddle in everything.

• cíe i hūn ĕ kâi hâiⁿ;

  give him that which belongs to him.

• cía sĭ i hūn lăi kâi sṳ̄;

  this appertains to his office.

• tîeh thóiⁿ i sĭm-mih sin hūn;

  must see what his belongings are.

• sìang sīm-mih sin hūn;

  ascertain what rank he has.

• kâi thien-hūn hó̤;

  he has fine natural abilities.