# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/twn
### twn

* 端twn9361179
* The origin; elementary principles; strait, correct, direct, grave, decent.

#### cŏ̤ pàng kò̤ twn-huang sì-cìaⁿ;

    sit upright and squarely in your chair.

#### isĭ twn-cìaⁿ kâi nâng;

    he is an upright man.

#### i bô̤ twn cò̤-nî mēⁿ lṳ́?

    Why does she berate you with no sufficient reason?

#### i kâi sim-sût puttwn;

    his notions are incorrect.

#### mùaⁿ-khí sĭ twn ngŏ coih;

    to-morrow is the 5th of the 5th moon.

#### cía sĭ sĭm-mih in-twn?

    What is the origin of this?

#### i sǹg sĭ ĭ twn kâi nâng;

    he is a man who holds heretical views.
* 彖tẁn938586
* A summing up of the application of the diagrams, and the good or bad embodied in them.

#### i kâi tẁn-sṳ̂ cò̤-nî tàⁿ?

    What is the gist of his divination?
* 斷tẁn9376914
* To settle; to decide; to give a judicial opinion; surely; certainly.

#### kàu kong-tn̂g cṳ̆-jîen ŭ kong-tẁn;

    if brought into open court there will of course be a just decision given.

#### kuaⁿ sím lío cò̤-nî tẁn?

    How did the magistrate, after examination of the case, decide it?

#### cìeⁿ-seⁿ phẁn-tẁn lâi tîeh;

    that settlement of the case is a correct one.

#### líang ke lóng-cóng cun tẁn;

    both parties acquiesced in the decision.

#### tẁn kàu nâng lóng-cóng su-hôk;

    gave such a decision that all parties submitted to it.

#### i cò̤ sṳ̄ ŭ kwt-tẁn;

    he acts with decision.

#### i mîaⁿ-ke tẁn khùe;

    he is expert in deciding what is signified by omens.

#### i kâi khùe tẁn lâi khùe căi;

    the predictions which he gives in divining prove very exact.

#### i tẁn-tẁn m̄ káⁿ;

    he will certainly not do so again.

#### úa thóiⁿ tẁn bô̤ cía sṳ̄;

    I do not believe there is any such thing.

#### tẁn sṳ̄ àiⁿ tẁn tit kong;

    in disposing of a case, one wants it disposed of justly.

#### cang chêng-lí lâi tẁn;

    settle it in accordance with the principles of equity.
* 曲tŵn458732

#### wu-tŵn;

    tortuous; serpentine.

#### wn-wn tŵn-tŵn;

    winding to and fro.

#### i kâi sim-tn̂g wn-tŵn căi;

    his mind is very crooked.

#### hía lŏ wn-wn tŵn-tŵn, o̤h jīn;

    the road is so full of crooks and bends that it is very difficult to follow.

#### cí ki châ khah wn-tŵn;

    this stick of wood is too crooked.

#### chêng-lí tîeh cĭu tît tàⁿ, màiⁿ wn-tŵn;

    the truth should be told in a straight-forward way, without circumlution.
* 斷tw̆n9376914
* To cut assunder; to break in two.

#### i tw̆n tĭo kîe;

    they destroyed the bridge.

#### cū sĭ i tó̤ tw̆n ău;

    it was they who brought up the rear in the retreat.
* 篆tw̆n1181189
* The square and involuted form of Chinese characters, invented in the Cheu dynasty.

#### i ŏi ía tw̆n jī;

    he can write the seal character.

#### cí khí kìe-cò̤ thih-sùaⁿ tw̆n;

    this kind is called the wire form, having the lines unbroken and of unvarying width.

#### tw̆n phó;

    a specimen of seal characters used as a copy.

#### hía kuaⁿ-ìn cêk pôiⁿ tw̆n jī, cêk pôiⁿ múaⁿ jī;

    that official seal has seal characters on one side and Manchu characters on the other.
* 煅tw̄n937869
* To calcine; to drive moisture out of solids by heat.

#### ēng cò̤ tw̄n cîeh-ko̤, màiⁿ ēng cò̤ cheⁿ cîeh-ko̤;

    make it of calcined, not of unprepared gypsum.

#### tw̄n cò̤ hu;

    calcine it and make it into powder.

#### cang húe lâi tw̄n;

    drive out the moisture by fire.
* 段tw̄n937795
* To lay things out.

#### chíu-tw̄n;

    handiwork.

#### thóiⁿ i tíen sĭm-mih chíu-tw̄n chut lâi;

    see what sleight of hand he displays.

#### chíu-tw̄n kau-khîang;

    workmanship showing the very highest degree of skill.

#### i tŏ̤ kò̤ tíen chíu-tw̄n;

    he is displaying his dexterity.