VOCABULARY
- To move, to excite, °doong 動.
- To hear, thing (聽). Heard, thing-kyien° 聽見
- To knock, to strike, khau 敲.
- To finish, wen 完.
Kan (間) is the classifier used with rooms.
- A room, ih kan 一間.
- A bed room, ih kan vaung-kan 一間房間.
- A guest room, ih kan khak-daung-kan 一間客堂間.
- An office, ih kan °sia-z°-kan 一間寫字間.
- A shroff’s room, ih kan tsang°-vaung-kan 一間帳房間.
- A study, ih kan su-vaung 一間書房.
- A dining room, ih kan chuh-van°-kan 一間吃飯間.
- A kitchen, ih kan sau-van°-kan 一間燒飯間 or dzu-vaung 廚房 or tsau°-kan 灶間.
- All, °loong-°tsoong 攏總 or koong°-°tsoong 共總.
- All in general, most, da-ke 大槪.
- Few, °sau 少.
- Each, °me 每.
- Every, kauh 各.
- Other, bih 別.
- High, kau 高.
- Low, ti 低.
- Broad, khweh 闊.
- Narrow, ‘ah 狹.
- Deep, sung 深.
- Shallow, °tshien 淺
- Too (denoting excess), thuh 忒.
- Above, °zaung-deu 上頭.
- Below, °‘au-deu 下頭, °‘au-°ti-deu 下底]頭, °‘au-°ti 下底.
- Under, beneath, °ti-°‘au 底下.
- Outside, nga°-deu 外頭.
- After, °‘eu 後.
- Behind, °‘eu-°ti 後底, °‘eu-°ti-deu, 後底頭 °‘eu-deu 後頭.
- Before, zien 前, zien-deu 前頭.
- Earth, di° 地 or di°-jeu 地球.