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

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兵

• A soldier; troops; a force; an army; military; warlike.

• piaⁿ teng;

  soldiers.

• piaⁿ cìang;

  army leaders.

• khí piaⁿ;

  raise troops.

• thîo piaⁿ;

  to station troops.

• ceng piaⁿ;

  disciplined troops.

• hôk piaⁿ;

  troops in ambush.

• tăi piaⁿ;

  the main body of the army.

• bé-piaⁿ;

  cavalry.

• pō-piaⁿ;

  infantry.

• cìen piaⁿ;

  the engaged forces.

• kìu piaⁿ;

  a force sent to succor.

• tíam piaⁿ;

  to call the roll; mustering.

• chau-līen piaⁿ-bé;

  to exercise or drill troops; a disciplined force.

冰

• Ice; icy; crystallized.

• piaⁿ sng;

  ice and frost.

• piaⁿ sng cúi;

  ice-water.

• cúi kit sêng piaⁿ;

  water freezes and forms ice.

• piaⁿ îeⁿ khṳ̀;

  the ice has melted.

• piaⁿ-thn̂g;

  rock candy.

• pŏ̤-hò̤ piaⁿ;

  crystallized peppermint essence.

餅

• Cake; biscuit; dumplings.

• píaⁿ kuaⁿ;

  dry biscuits.

• guêh píaⁿ;

  cakes made at the full of the eighth moon and used in worshipping it.

• so-píaⁿ;

  crisp cakes.

• píaⁿ phûe, píaⁿ āⁿ;

  the pastry and the filling of a dumpling.

• gû-ni-píaⁿ;

  cheese.

• sie píaⁿ;

  to bake cakes.

• pūe píaⁿ;

  to bake cakes in a pan over the fire.

丙

• The third of the ten stems.

• píaⁿ teng sok húe;

  the third and fourth of the ten stems belong to fire.

• cŏ̤ jîm hìang píaⁿ;

  facing due south.

併

• To reduce to uniformity; to expose; to endanger; to pour together.

• pìaⁿ mīaⁿ cò̤;

  act without regard to his life.

• i pìaⁿ căi;

  he is very reckless.

• nŏ̤ úaⁿ pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk úaⁿ;

  put what is in the two bowls into one.

• nŏ̤ saⁿ khí ùaⁿ-kĭaⁿ pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk khí;

  reduce two or three cases at law to a single case.

• màiⁿ pìaⁿ sua-îa;

  do not spill it in turning it out.

• pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk ē;

  turn them all into one lot.

• sì pau, pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk pau;

  put the four bundles into one.

• sie pìaⁿ;

  join in one.

• pìaⁿ thóiⁿ tī-tîang méⁿ;

  see who will be quickest.

並

• thun-pìaⁿ;

  to swallow up; to devour.

• tōa hieⁿ thun-pìaⁿ síe hieⁿ, tōa kok thun-pìaⁿ síe kok;

  large towns swallow up small ones, and great nations swallow up lesser ones.

• jī ke sie thun-piaⁿ;

  the two devour each other.

述

• To repeat what one has heard.

• úa pîaⁿ lṳ́ thiaⁿ;

  I will narrate it to you as I heard it.

• jī mó̤ chîa, ūe mó̤ pîaⁿ;

  letters should not be rubbed out and written in again on the same paper, and words should not be repeated from hearsay.

• i cò̤-nî tàⁿ, lṳ́ pîaⁿ úa thiaⁿ;

  repeat his words to me as nearly as you can.

• cêk kù cêk kù pîaⁿ mēng-pêh;

  state it plainly word for word.

• cē píaⁿ cū bô̤ saⁿ sîaⁿ;

  in relating it he told less than three tenths of the story.