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

仙

An immortal; human souls endued with divine powers; beings of benign nature, inferior to gods, and having the power of becoming invisible; fairies; an old recluse who changes into another form but does not die; to become immortal; deathless; anything puzzling or curious; graceful.
sien ko;

a fairy, or elf.
sien bô̤;

an old female fairy.
sien ong;

an old male fairy.
sien thông;

youthful genii.
sien ńng;

an immortal, feminine and middle aged.
sien-nâng;

the elfin folk.
sêng cò̤ sien;

become an immortal.
sài kùe sien-kéng;

more wonderful than fairyland.
siu līen kàu sêng sien;

endure affliction till immortality is attained thereby.
sien-kut;

lithe; lissome; fairylike.
pue sîen;

seraphs; genii who have great powers.
thien sien;

angels.
tī sien;

immortals living among men.
hŏng-sien-hue;

the touch-me-not flower.
poih sien;

the eight genii, deified mortals, regarded now as the patrons of art.
hó̤ kùe sien-tang;

sweeter than nectar.
sien-ke kâi bĭo îeh;

a mystic remedy from the genii; a draught giving immortality.
sien hut;

a long besom of horsehair, used to drive mosquitoes away.
sien tang;

a fairy grotto.
sien keng;

a temple of the genii.
i ău-lâi kui sien khṳ̀;

afterward he became an immortal.

珊

癬

禪

To sit abstractedly in contemplation, as do Buddhist priests; meditation; to resign the thone to another family.
cŏ̤ sien;

sit lost in contemplation.
i ciu jît kio tó̤ cŏ̤-sîen cêk īeⁿ;

he sits all day like one in fixed contemplation, such as Buddhists practise.
sîen-sṳ;

the priests, who are supposed to contemplate and pray.
sîen ūi pun i kâi tăi-chîn;

resigned the throne to one of his courtiers.

擅

To act as one pleases; to take the responsibility of doing without orders; willful; illegally; arbitrarily; to usurp, to assume; despotic.
mih sṳ̄ m̄ káⁿ sĭen-cwn;

would not venture to act unauthorized.
i chṳ́-căi tó̤ sĭen khŵn;

lie now usurps authority.
i cò̤-nî káⁿ sĭen-cṳ̆ thiah huang?

How dare he take the responsibility of opening the envelope without orders?

善

Good from principle; virtuous; merit from good works, such as the Buddhists teach; goodness; eminent; wise; meek.
docile;

fitted for; clever.
expert, handy;

to take to naturally; in a high degree; to do a thing well; to expedite.
sĭen ak kàu thâu cong ŭ pò̤;

good and evil have always in the end a meet recompense.
kîaⁿ sĭen;

act righteously.
sĭen sṳ̆;

virtuous actions.
sĭen huap;

a clever scheme; a good rule.
sĭen cong;

a peaceful end.
sĭen ŭ sĭen pò̤, ak ŭ ak po;

virtue is well rewarded, and vice is suitably punished.
mīn-sek m̄ sĭen;

his face has a bad expression.
i sĭen cáu;

he is an expert runner.
ngŭi-sĭen;

hypocritical.
ngŭi-sĭen kâi nâng;

a hypocrite.
m̄ sĭ cin sĭen;

is not real goodness.
ké sĭen;

pretended virtue.
sèⁿ pńg lâi sî sĭen;

disposition is naturally docile.
i sĭm sĭ sĭen ĕng nâng;

he is naturally very apt at it.
kói ak, chông sĭen;

depart from evil and do good.
siu sĭen kâi nâng;

one who cultivates virtue.
sĭen-ău-kêk sĭ phōiⁿ-lí sĭen-ău kâi sṳ̄-ngî kâi;

a subsidiary committee takes the management of what is left to be attended to after the work of a previous committee is completed.
sĭen sim;

a meek spirit.
hŵn-lío būe cĭn sĭen;

has not yet attained the utmost excellence.

鱔

繕

腎

膳

Viands; rich fare; delicacies.
i kâi cṳ-ce sĭ chŵn keng-sĭen, a sĭ pùaⁿ keng-sĭen?

In this school is the teacher’s food furnish wholly by the pupils, or only in part?
i ŭ keng-sĭen;

he has his provisions furnished.

禪

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