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

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鰥

• A huge fish found in the Yellow River and reported to be large enough to fill a cart: the story is that it cannot close its eyes and never sleeps.

• cêk mêⁿ, mâk kim-kim, cn̂g kâi bŏi ût;

  did not close my eyes the whole night, and was wholly unable to sleep.

• mâk kim-kim;

  eyes staring and unwinking.

今

• Now; presently.

• kim jît;

  to-day.

• hīn-kim;

  now.

• cṳ̆ kó kàu kim;

  from ancient times till now.

• kim ău;

  after this.

• cṳ̆ kim íⁿ ău;

  from this time forth.

• kim nî;

  this year.

• kim sî;

  the present time.

金

• Gold, the metal par excellence; metal; golden; gilded; metalic; precious.

• chiah kim;

  red gold.

• pêh kim;

  silver.

• ngŏ kim;

  all the metals.

• kim hîeh;

  gold plate.

• kim tîo;

  bars of gold.

• kheng cò̤ kim khò̤-thâu-si;

  make it into shoes of gold.

• kim hue piⁿ;

  gold pieces.

• kim pô̤h;

  gold-leaf.

• tûi cò̤ kim pô̤h;

  beat it into gold leaf.

• kim ngṳ̂n;

  wealth; money.

• cí hú phîn-tìeⁿ àiⁿ sía lûi kim kâi, a sĭ tah kim pô̤h cū hó̤?

  Do you want the letters on this pair of screens written with pulverized gold, or will it do to make them by laying on gold-leaf?

• khí tîo kim sùaⁿ;

  make a gilded molding.

• thiaⁿ lṳ́ kâi hó̤ kim ngân;

  listen to your instructive words.

• cok kim; câp cok kâi kim;

  pure gold.

• cí kâi kim ío kĕ;

  this gold is adulterated more.

• phah tîo kim līen;

  make a gold chain.

• lṳ́ sî-pie-līen sî kim kâi, a sĭ ngṳ̂n khṳ̀ līu kim kâi?

  Is your watch-chain of gold, or is it silver washed with gold?

• i chah ki kim jû-ì, kah kùa sang kim hĭⁿ-kau;

  she wore a gold ornament in her hair, and a pair of gold ear-rings.

• cĕng-cĕng sĭ kim kâi;

  it is wholly of gold.

• kim gêk;

  gold and precious stones; valuable; precious.

• i kâi nâng kim-kim gêk-gêk;

  he is a very refined person.

• kim cheⁿ;

  the planet Venus.

• cheⁿ kim cîeh;

  malachite.

• kim hue;

  brass-leaf ornaments, made like flowers, and used as offerings.

• kim sek;

  golden.

• choiⁿ kim;

  your daughter.

• kim kang cǹg;

  a probe.

• cū sî kim-kng, úa īa àiⁿ khàng i kò̤ thô;

  though he were the gods that guard the temple gates I would treat him as if he were clay.

• sì mīn kim thĭo, sûi nâng siah;

  a pillar having its four sides of gold, does not mind which side is hewed at.

• kio kim-hô-sîn hìeⁿ-seⁿ, phī-phī pue;

  like a green fly fluttering along; a fine and glittering presence, and nothing besides.

錦

• A kind of thin brocade; flowery.

• câp kím kâi úaⁿ tîh;

  painted chinaware.

• tàⁿ kàu jû hue sṳ̆ kím;

  speak in a very flowery style.

• khang kím pĭⁿ;

  trim with flowered braid.

• pù-kùi m̄ kui kū hieⁿ, jû ì kím mêⁿ kîaⁿ;

  to be rich and not return to one’s native village, is like wearing brocade at night, (when no one sees it).

禁

• To restrain; to prohibit; to shut up; to keep off; to impose restrictions.

• lîah i khṳ̀ kìm;

  seize and imprison him.

• i sĭ kìm tŏ̤ kam a kìm tŏ̤ ki?

  Is he shut up in the jail, or in the lockup of the yamun?

• kím i màiⁿ cìeⁿ-seⁿ cò̤;

  forbid his doing thus.

• kìm nâng bô̤ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

  prohibit people from so doing.

• chut kìm-tîo lâi tah, khṳt nâng cai;

  issue a prohibitory placard to be stuck up, to let people know.

• kìm sîaⁿ;

  the Forbidden City, the Closed Citadel, His Majesty’s residence.

• cía sĭ hŭam-kìm kâi mûeh;

  this is a contraband article.

• kìm tī;

  forbidden places.

• i tó̤ cò̤ kìm-cí;

  he acts as turnkey.

• uî kìm;

  disregard a prohibition.

• chêng put cṳ̆ kìm;

  the passions do not restrain themselves.

• mih sṳ̄ bô̤ kìm bô̤ kĭ;

  under no restraint in any way.

• tīam-tīam kìm tŏ̤ pâng lăi;

  kept constantly in the inner appartments, and not allowed to come out.

• cía put kùe khṳ̀ cṳ-ce kìm-tīam cē;

  this one merely goes to school that he may be kept quiet there.

• ciu-jît kìm tŏ̤ cṳ-ce lăi, bô̤ i chut lâi;

  shut him up all day in the school room, and would not let him out.

• cìeⁿ-seⁿ khah kìm khùi, tîeh tháu i thong khì cē;

  this is too close for breathing, there must be an aperture made for ventilation.

• kím-cì suang-jíang;

  forbid vociferation.

• koi lîah khṳ̀ kìm;

  catch the hens and shut them up.

• lêng-ūaⁿ bói kâi koi-lam hó̤ kím koi;

  buy another coop to keep the fowls in.

• cío kìm tŏ̤ cío-lâng lăi;

  the bird is confined in a cage.

• i kâi tṳ kìm tŏ̤ tṳ-lô̤ tói;

  her pigs are shut up in a pen.

• kìm bô̤ nâng á cìa; forbid the breaking off of the sugar canes;

  no trespass allowed on this cane patch.

• kìm bô̤ nâng tiah kúe-cí;

  prohibits the picking of this fruit.

噤

• Unable to speak, from lock-jaw or other disease.

• kìm-kháu lĭ;

  dysentery and difficulty in swallowing.

• lĭ-cît sĭang-téng kĭ kìm-kháu, kìm kháu kâi cū o̤h ui;

  the dysentery which is most to be dreaded is that in which there is difficulty in swallowing, as this kind is difficult to cure.

妗

• The wife of a mother’s or wife’s brother.

• bó̤ kĭm;

  mother’s brother’s wife.

• chi kĭm;

  wife’s brother’s wife.

• lău kĭm;

  great uncle’s wife.