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

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美

• Beautiful; good-looking; excellent; delicious; happy.

• múiⁿ-ńng;

  a pretty girl.

• múiⁿ-jîn;

  handsome women; a belle.

• múiⁿ-bī;

  toothsome.

• sĭ i cêk tn̄g kâi múiⁿ ì;

  it is a kind thought of hers.

• múiⁿ tang ŭ tíam put cok;

  there is a little thing lacking to his complete happiness.

• tăi-múiⁿ-kok;

  the United States.

• múiⁿ sṳ̄;

  a delightful affair.

• kun-cṳ́ sêng nâng cṳ múiⁿ;

  good-breeding tends to the attainment of what is good.

微

• Small, trifling, insignificant, mean; minute, fine; in a slight degree; too; rather; hidden, subtle, obscure, recondite, abstruse; waning; to dwindle away.

• mûiⁿ-bīo kâi tŏ̤-lí;

  a doctrine hard to fathom.

• káng-kìu kàu sòi-mûiⁿ căi;

  explained it very minutely.

• i kâi mêh mûiⁿ-sòi;

  her pulse is very low.

• mûiⁿ chìe;

  a faint smile.

• hŏ mûiⁿ-kíaⁿ; hŏ mûiⁿ-mûiⁿ; a drizzling, fine rain.

• siaⁿ mûiⁿ-mûiⁿ;

  a weak voice.

• híen-mûiⁿ-kìaⁿ;

  a microscope.

• put kùe cêk tíam mûiⁿ ì;

  only a small token of gratitude.

• ìuⁿ-mûiⁿ ìuⁿ-mûiⁿ;

  very minute.

• i kâi jī nĕ mûiⁿ-mûiⁿ nē;

  the letters are very small indeed.

薇

• chîang-mûiⁿ;

  the crape myrtle.

• pêh-mûiⁿ;

  swallow-wort.