# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/hok
### hok

* 福hok1501139
* Happiness; good fortune; felicity which attends divine protection.

#### hok im;

    glad tidings.

#### hok im tn̂g;

    a church or chapel.

#### ŭ hok-khì;

    to be blessed.

#### hok tōa căi;

    very great felicity.

#### cí kâi ŭ hok, hṳ́ kâi bô̤ hok;

    this one is happy and that one is not.

#### kṳ̆n-lâi mng nap hok?

    Have you been quite well lately?

#### hok tī;

    a favored spot.

#### hok cìang;

    a lucky commander.

#### híang hok;

    to enjoy happiness.

#### hok hun tōa;

    highly favored.

#### hwt châi hwt hok;

    grow rich and prosperous.

#### cêk lō hok cheⁿ;

    may a happy star light your way.

#### ngŏ hok;

    the five blessings, long life, riches, soundness of body and mind, love of virtue, and a peaceful end.

#### ŭ lĭaug cū ŭ hok;

    to have right principles is to have good fortune.

#### pô̤h hok kâi nâng;

    one who has little prosperity.

#### hok cêk căi;

    greatly blessed.

#### i tó̤ hok nŏ̤;

    he is highly prospered.

#### hok lôk sīu chŵn;

    fortune, honors, and longevity, all bestowed.
* 覆hok15114612
* To subvert; ruined.

#### hẃn hok; hẃn-hẃn hok-hok;

    ruined.

#### thien hwn tī hok;

    the overthrow of heaven and earth.
* 蝠hok1501429
* A bat.

#### ūe ngó hok;

    to paint or draw five bats in various positions.
* 複hok1521459
* Double.

#### têng-hok;

    repeated; duplicated.

#### tàⁿ ūe têng-hok;

    to reiterate.
* 復hôk151609
* Again; to do a second time; to repeat.

#### hẃn hôk; hẃn-hẃn hôk-hôk;

    repeatedly.

#### hôk sìn;

    the reply to a letter.

#### hôk mĕng;

    to report upon, as a commission.

#### lṳ́ àiⁿ cò̤-nî hûe-hôk i?

    What reply are you going to make to him?

#### hôk tong-heng;

    to revive and ​prosper.

#### hôk chîu;

    to pay off a grudge.

#### hôk-tńg ngŵn īeⁿ;

    revert to the original species.

#### hôk ûah;

    to return to life.

#### khiok-hôk sîaⁿ-tî;

    to recover the city.

#### kàu cṳ́ sî cū hôk îⁿ;

    at midnight it will again be full-orbed.

#### hôk i kâi lói;

    reciprocate his courtesy.

#### cang sĭm-mûeh lâi hôk i kâi nâng-chêng?

    In what way shall we reciprocate his kindness?

#### chê hôk;

    examine and report on.

#### pín hôk;

    reply that an order is performed.
* 袱hôk1521456
* A square cloth.

#### pau-hôk; pau-kó̤;

    a bundle wrapped in a square cloth.

#### pau-hôk phûe; pau-kó̤ phûe;

    a strong square cloth for wrapping bedding or clothes.
* 茯hôk1521406
* A fungus-like substance found on the roots of fir trees.

#### hôk-lĕng;

    the medicine known as China root.

#### hôk-lĕng ko̤;

    a kind of cake made of China root.

#### thó hôk-lĕng; thó-hôk;

    the root of the Smilax chinensis$^*$.

#### pêh hôk; chiah hôk;

    white and flesh colored fungus.
* 域hôk1141328
* A frontier, a border, a region; a far-off territory; lands; states.

#### úa pat thóiⁿ-kìⁿ sai-hôk bŭn-kìen-lôk;

    I have seen a book of travels in the outlying western regions.

#### cô̤h hôk;

    border states.

#### ĭ hôk;

    strange lands.

#### nán kâi kùi kok kiang-hôk ŭ jîeh khuah?

    How extensive are the boundaries of your noble country?
* 伏hôk15294
* To conceal; to lie perdue; to prostrate one's self.

#### hôk piaⁿ;

    troops in ambush.

#### hôk piaⁿ khí lâi côih-tn̆g i kâi lō;

    the ambushed soldiers rose up and cut off his retreat.

#### màiⁿ hôk piaⁿ bé tŏ̤ chīu-lîm lăi;

    do not conceal the mounted troops in the thicket.

#### hok ti chiaⁿ cue;

    bow down and ask for punishment.

#### hṳ́-kò̤ hok ŭ nâng-be to ko;

    there are people lying there in ambush,

#### saⁿ hok jit;

    three decades in summer, when people hold themselves in retirement; dog-days.
* 或hôk259624
* Perchance; perhaps; if.

#### úa hôk-cía àiⁿ lâi;

    I may perhaps come.

#### hôk sĭ lṳ́ àiⁿ lâi li cá cē;

    if you come, come early.

#### lṳ́ ak-hôk m̄ lâi li soiⁿ kio úa tàⁿ;

    if you are not coming, tell me beforehand.

#### hôk ŭ nâng mn̄g lṳ́, lṳ́ tîeh cìeⁿ-seⁿ ìn;

    if anyone should ask you, you must thus answer.

#### cí īeⁿ hôk ā-sĭ bô̤ li bói cò̤ hṳ́ īeⁿ;

    if there should be none of this sort, then buy that sort instead.

#### hôk sĭ ŭ hôk sĭ bô̤ li kio úa tàⁿ tīaⁿ-tîeh;

    should there be any, or should there not be any, in any case tell me definitely.
* 惑hôk259618
* To delude, to lead astray; to inveigle.

#### sim lăi gî-hô̤k;

    suspicious.

#### màiⁿ sái nâng gî-hôk;

    do not make people distrust.

#### i sĭ kōi mîⁿ-hôk kâi nâng;

    he is easily gulled.

#### sîa kà to sĭ bû sì hôk mîn kâi ūe;

    evil teachings are what unsettle and delude the people.

#### cang cía kâi lâi mîⁿ-hôk nâng sim;

    made use of this to lead people's minds astray.

#### có̤ tău hôk cèng;

    false doctrines mislead all.

#### íu-hôk;

    to beguile.

#### màiⁿ khṳt i íu-hôk khṳ̀;

    do not be deluded by him.
* 服hôk152744
* Garments; apparel; to take medicine; a dose; to wait on; to serve; habituated.

#### i-hôk;

    clothing.

#### hôk-sek;

    apparel.

#### hà hôk;

    mourning garments.

#### bô̤ hôk;

    destitute of clothing.

#### cĭeⁿ chîo cū chēng chîo-hôk;

    when one goes to court he wears a court dress.

#### ôiⁿ sî khṳ̀ ke li chēng pĭen hôk;

    when one goes home in intervals of labor, he may wear his working dress.

#### kong hôk;

    one's best clothes.

#### saⁿ nî hôk;

    garments worn during the three years of mourning for a parent.

#### hôk îeh bô̤ hāu;

    there is no merit made in taking medicine.

#### ēng cîah kúi hôk îeh cìaⁿ hó̤;

    after a few doses of medicine you will be well.

#### cêk hôk îeh cū chŵn-jú;

    got well after one dose of medicine.

#### su-hôk;

    to wait on; to yield submission.

#### hôk-sṳ̆;

    to serve.

#### síe sim hôk-sṳ̆;

    carefully attend upon.

#### m̄ hôk cúi thó;

    not acclimated; not accustomed to the place.

#### m̄ hôk kà-hùn;

    intractable.

#### m̄ khéng hâng-hôk i;

    would not submit to him.

#### cìeⁿ-sî kâi nâng bô̤ mih su-hôk;

    the people of the present time are not docile.

#### siu-cīeⁿ m̄ su-hôk;

    his disease does not yield to treatment.

#### cí cho̤h îeh cîah lô̤h khṳ̀ su-hôk căi;

    after taking this medicine the desired effect followed.

#### i m̄ hôk i lău;

    he is not willing to be regarded as old; does not succumb to his years.
* 蔛hôk23314011

#### cîeh-hôk;

    an orchid, used as a tonic medicine.
It grows on the rocks in southern China.

#### kim-thoi cîeh-hôk;

    a species of orchid which turns yellow when dried.