# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/cio
### cio

* 招cio31645
* To let people know; to own to; to wait on.

#### i m̄ khéng cio-jīn;

    he is unwilling to own to it.

#### li phah sí m̄ khéng cio;

    one party owned it on being beaten, the other party would not own it though beaten to death.

#### cio-îo cŭang-phìen;

    to beguile.

#### mín mn̄g cṳ̆ cio;

    confessed it unquestioned.

#### cio châi îa;

    the god of weath.

#### cio-kè m̄ cŭ;

    unequal to resist.

#### cio-hu;

    to wait upon.

#### khut phah sêng cio;

    criminate one's self falsely because of being beaten.
* 膲cio97013012
* Imaginary organs or passages which are supposed to encircle the cavities of the thorax and abdomen, and connect the viscera. Chinese physiologists have used them as a convenient force to explain the obscure operations of digestion and secretion, and say they have no form.

#### cīeⁿ cio, tong cio, ĕ cio, kìe-cò̤ sam cio;

    the upper, middle, and lower portions of the body between the heart and the groin, are thus called.
* 朝cio32748
* Suddenly; early; morning.

#### cêk cio;

    in a trice.

#### cêk cio cē pù-kùi;

    grew suddenly rich.

#### mêng-cio;

    to-morrow morning; by and by.

#### a-nôⁿ sam cio sói-êk;

    infants are bathed on the third day.
* 昭cio31725
* Luminous; to show forth.

#### cèng mâk cio-cio;

    every eye beheld it.

#### thiⁿ lí cio ciang;

    heaven's laws are evident.

#### cio kun thàu; cio kun ûi;

    a fillet worn by Chinese women.
* 樵cio9717512
* To cut fuel.

#### cio-hu;

    a woodman.

#### sì pak ūe, ūe cò̤ hṳ̂, cio, keⁿ, mok;

    paint four scrolls representing a fisherman, a woodcutter, a plowman, and a shepherd.
* 焦cio970868
* Browned; singed; scorched.

#### chá cio;

    fried brown.

#### chá kàu cio-cio;

    fried very brown.

#### sim cio;

    greatly distressed.

#### chùi cio-chàu;

    the mouth parched.

#### âu-lêng cio-chàu;

    the throat hot and dry.

#### lṳ́ màiⁿ cio-chàu;

    do not be vexed.

#### sim lăi cio-chàu;

    anxious and worried.
* 鳥cío6321960
* Birds.

#### cío bó̤, cío kak, cío kíaⁿ;

    the mother bird, the male bird, and the birdlings.

#### hún-cío;

    a dove.

#### kheh-cío;

    a magpie.

#### mûaⁿ-ciah cío;

    a sparrow.

#### kŭ-ku cío;

    the wood pigeon.

#### teng-hieⁿ cío;

    the clove bird.

#### phû-îong cío;

    a canary.

#### ngio-thâu cío;

    an owl.

#### hṳ̂-tèng cío;

    cormorants.

#### lĭo-eng-pô̤ cío;

    hawks.

#### līo-ko̤ cío;

    a minor, a small black bird that can be taught to talk.

#### pùn-cē cío;

    blackbirds.

#### ìⁿ-cío;

    martins.

#### pue cío;

    birds.

#### khîm cío;

    the feathered tribes.

#### cío tàu;

    a bird's nest.

#### cío-lâng;

    a bird cage.

#### chī cío;

    to keep birds.

#### i chī ciah phû-îong cío;

    she keeps a canary.

#### phah cío;

    to shoot birds; to fight birds.

#### phah pue cío;

    to shoot a bird on the wing.

#### to̤h cío khùe;

    fortunes told by trained birds.

#### cío-bûe;

    a stool-pigeon.

#### lô̤h cío kuang kà cío;

    to train birds in a bird pen.

#### cío hiah tŏ̤ hṳ́-kò̤;

    birds perch there.

#### cío tó̤ phîah sît;

    the bird is flapping his wings.

#### cío tó̤ phêh;

    the bird is soaring.

#### cío kâⁿ ki chīu ki;

    the bird has a twig in its bill.

#### cío tó̤ to̤h sĭm-mûeh?

    What is the bird pecking at?

#### cío tó̤ pū kíaⁿ;

    the bird is covering its young.

#### thi cío;

    to catch birds with bird lime.

#### cío gṳ́;

    incoherent chatter.

#### cío tó̤ cĭ i kâi mô̤ⁿ;

    the bird is oiling its feathers.
* 照cìo35869
* To regard; to care for.

#### cìo-kù;

    to regard; to patronize; to look after.

#### cìo-kù m̄ kàu;

    did not take sufficient care of her.

#### cìo-kẃn;

    to oversee.

#### cìo cṳ;

    go according to the written directions.

#### m̄ cìo cṳ;

    go contrary to the book.

#### chŵn m̄ cìo cṳ;

    wholly unprecedented.
* 詔cìo351495
* To announce.

#### cìo kàu thiⁿ ĕ;

    proclaim throughout the earth.

#### hŏng cìo;

    received the announcement.

#### hâng-lîm īⁿ thăi cìo;

    an officer in the National Academy.
* 皂隷cío-lĭ524
* Lictors; criers in a cortege; underlings; official attendants; runners, who accompany the retinue of an official.

#### sang pôiⁿ kâi cío-lĭ îa;

    the attendant images standing on either side of an idol.
* 怦cīo661615
* Ardent; earnest; vehement.

#### cí hûe tó lăi cīo-cīo-kìe, bŏi khṳ̀ lí pât sṳ̄;

    am now full of this affair, and cannot go and attend to any thing else.

#### sim cīo-cīo-kìe, bŏi tit cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ méⁿ-méⁿ lí kàu sêng;

    have my mind engrossed in it, and am eager to bring this matter to a speedy consummation.