VOCABULARY
- To break, smash, se° 碎, °tang-se° 打碎, or khau-se° 敲碎.
- To beget to nourish, °yang 養, or sang °yang 生養.
- To lose, to forfeit, seh 失, or seh-theh 失脫.
- To arrange, to attend to matters, to direct ban° 辦.
- A Compradore, °ma-ban° 買辦.
- To consult, saung-liang 商量, tsung-tsak 斟酌.
- To point with the hand, °tien 點, or °ts-°tien 指點.
- To separate, fung 分, or fung-khe 分開.
- To hinder, oppose, °tsoo 阻, or °tsoo-taung° 阻檔.
- To answer, we-deu 回頭, or we-tah 回答.
- To exchange, to barter, wen° 換, or diau° 調.
- To attend to a thing to make it right, loong° 弄, or loong°-°hau 弄好.
- To distinguish, fung-pih 分別.
- A difference, ih kuh fung-pih 一個分別.
- Wages, koong-dien 工錢.
- Salary, sok-sieu 束脩, sing-foong° 薪俸, or sing-°soe 薪水.
- Misery, °khoo-nau° 苦腦.
- Rain, °yui 雨,
- To rain, lauh °yui 落雨.
- Coolie, tsheh-tien° 出店.
- A duck, ih tsak ah 一隻鴨.
- A broom, ih °po °sau-°tseu 一把掃箒.
- A snake, ih diau zo 一條蛇.
- A stick of bamboo, ih kung tsok-deu 一根竹頭.
- Glass, poo-li 玻璃.
- A glass (for the table), ih tsak poo-li pe-°ts 一隻玻璃杯子.
°Doong (桶) is the classifier for casks, tubs and buckets.
- A bucket of water, ih °doong °s 一桶水.
Bing (瓶) is the classifier for bottles.
- A bottle of medicine, ih bing yak 一瓶藥.
Siang (箱) is the classifier for boxes of things.
- A box of dollars, ih siang yang-dien 一箱洋錢.
- A box of tea, ih siang dzo-yih 一箱茶葉.
- Tired, sa-doo 弛瘏.
- Square, faung 方.
- Round, yoen 圓.
- Little (to a small extent), sau-we 稍爲.
- Thick, °‘eu 厚.
- Thin, bok 薄.
- Instead of, °de-thi° 代替.
- Sufficient, keu-z° 榖事, keu-z°-tse 彀事哉, or °yeu-tse 有哉.
- Together with (two persons doing a thing), da-ka 大家.
- To get wet, ling-sak 淋濕.