# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/chek
### chek

* 粟chek8231196
* Paddy; rice in the husk.

#### chek-chng;

    a granary.

#### chng chek;

    to garner rice.

#### cek liap chek;

    a grain of unhusked rice.

#### phâk chek;

    spread rice in the sun to dry.

#### chek-tîaⁿ;

    an area made for drying rice.

#### chek-pê;

    a paddy scoop.

#### chek-thâu;

    paddy.

#### chek-tĭam;

    a paddy basket.

#### phàⁿ chek;

    blasted rice.

#### chek-sui;

    a head of paddy.

#### chek-sui hoih;

    the heads of paddy are blighted.

#### chek, nŏ̤ tâng sĭ cêk seng, câp seng kìe-cò̤ cêk táu, câp táu kìe-cò̤ cêk cîeh;

    two pints of paddy are a quart, ten quarts are a peck, and ten pecks make a chaldron.

#### cêk cîeh cĭu sĭ cêk tàⁿ, cêk tàⁿ bōi kâi gūa ngṳ̂n;

    a chaldron is a picul, and a picul sells for over a dollar.

#### kùe lâi kâi chek kè khíong-ùi kùi;

    late in the season the price of paddy may be still higher.

#### cêk tàⁿ chek oi ŭ jîeh cōi bí?

    How much hulled rice have you got from the picul of paddy?

#### cêk seng bí cṳ́ jîeh cōi pn̄g?

    How much boiled rice will a quart of uncooked rice make?

#### châng chek cîah pn̄g;

    eat of the product of one's own fields.

#### chek-sui pá, siu ŭ sîaⁿ;

    the ears of paddy are full and we shall harvest many fold.

#### put chek lâi cìm céng;

    put some paddy asoak to use as seed.

#### lṳ́ cêk nî siu ŭ jîeh cōi chek?

    How much paddy do you harvest in a year?

#### lô̤h hieⁿ lâi siu co chek;

    gone to the country to get his share of the product of the rice fields.

#### cí lûa chek oi ŭ jîeh cōi cho-khng chut lâi?

    How much paddy husk came from this basket of unhusked rice?

#### úa tun ŭ kúi choiⁿ tàⁿ chek tŏ̤ kò̤;

    I have several thousand piculs of paddy on hand.

#### thìe kúi tàⁿ chek lâi bói mûeh;

    barter off paddy for other goods.

#### tîah chek;

    buys paddy.

#### lô̤h hŏ chek bŏi ta, tîeh khí húe lâi pue;

    it rains so the paddy cannot dry, and a fire must be built for drying it.

#### châng tèng kâi chek cìm kàu chut gê;

    the paddy in the fields has sprouted.

#### cí cho̤h chek kâi chek-khak pô̤h, oi ío ŭ bí;

    the husk of this paddy is thin, and there will be the more of the rice after hulling.
* 測chek960859
* To estimate; to fathom.

#### lâng chek-tâk;

    difficult to estimate.

#### pìen-hùe lâng chek;

    it is difficult to calculate the amount of the change.

#### chek m̄ pat tò̤ khṳ̀;

    do not know how to make an estimate of it.

#### m̄-hó̤ chek-tâk;

    inestimable.

#### ngŏ̤ tîeh put chek kâi sṳ̄ cū hó̤ ēng;

    when something unexpected occurs, it may be used.

#### chek jī sin-seⁿ;

    one who tells fortunes from letters.

#### chim kàu m̄-hó̤ chek;

    unfathomable.

#### chui-chek tŏ̤-lí;

    inscrutable doctrines.

#### chek-thóiⁿ ŭ jîeh cōi;

    make a calculation of the amount.

#### chek tit chut;

    calculable.

#### chek m̄ chut;

    incalculable.

#### chek-thóiⁿ cúi jîeh chim;

    calculate the depth of the water.

#### kìⁿ tŏ̤ put chek phŏ;

    among things inscrutable.
* 窄chek9591165
* Insufficient.

#### kín-chek; oîh-chek;

    cramped, straitened, contracted.

#### kín-chek kín-chek nē;

    barely enough.

#### bô̤ sĭm-mih khuah, ôih-chek ôih-chek;

    there is not much space, it is very cramped.
* 膝chek80413011
* The knees.

#### khut chek;

    bend the knee.

#### chek ĕ;

    those under one's authority.

#### kha chíu chek ĕ;

    children and dependents.

#### phang-ie ho̤h-chek;

    a waist like a wasp's and knees like a stork's.

#### ho̤h chek huang;

    enlargement of the knee joint.
* 惻chek960619
* To sympathize.

#### chek-ṳ́n kâi sim;

    humane feelings.

#### nâng-nâng to ŭ chek-ṳ́n kâi sim;

    every one has natural sympathies.
* 斥chek72691
* To expel.

#### lṳ́ a m̄ cun, úa cĭu cang lṳ́ chek-keh;

    if you do not obey, I will take away your office.

#### chek-tôk;

    to drive out.
* 側chek95799
* Lateral; onesided.

#### chek mâk;

    envious glances.

#### chek sin;

    lop sided.

#### chek-ŏ̤;

    leans over to one side.