# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/sien
### sien

* 仙sien79993
* 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sien733965

#### sien-hû;

    red coral.

#### ŭ nŏ̤ ki sien-hû;

    I have two branches of red coral.
* 癬sien80110417
* Tetter; ringworm; scaldhead; scrofulous or leprous sores.

#### seⁿ sien;

    has a scabby eruption.

#### sien îeh;

    medicine for ringworm.

#### buah sien;

    annoint a scaldhead.

#### gû phûe sien;

    a kind of lepra.

#### kim cîⁿ sien;

    a leprous patch.

#### cù mô̤ⁿ sien;

    tetter which destroys hair.

#### âng sien;

    red ringworm.
* 禪sîen75111312
* 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sĭen7536413
* 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;

    he now usurps authority.

#### i cò̤-nî káⁿ sĭen-cṳ̆ thiah huang?

    How dare he take the responsibility of opening the envelope without orders?
* 善sĭen752309
* 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sĭen75319512
* Small fresh water eels.

#### pêh sĭen;

    white eels.

#### bé-uaⁿ sĭen;

    slices of fried eel.
* 繕sĭen75212012
* To transcribe or write out with care.

#### sĭen-sía phîn-tìeⁿ;

    engross the facing of a semicircular screen.

#### i cwn tó̤ sĭen-sía cṳ-sìn;

    he makes a business of copying out dispatches.
* 腎sĭen7381308
* The kidneys.

#### tṳ sĭen-cí;

    the kidneys of swine.

#### sĭen-cí īeⁿ;

    kidney shaped.

#### có̤ sĭen, ĭu sĭen;

    the left and the right kidney.

#### pó sĭen;

    strengthen the kidneys.
* 膳sĭen75213012
* 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sĭen75111312
* To resign the throne.

#### i sĭen ūi khṳt i kâi tăi chîn;

    he resigned the throne to his noble relative.

#### soiⁿ sĭen ūi khṳt i kâi kíaⁿ;

    abdicated in favor of his son.