ca
- sĭ ta-po a ca-bó?
- Is it a boy or a girl?
- ca-bó kíaⁿ;
- a daughter.
- ca-bó ké cò̤ ta-po;
- a woman disguised as a man.
- îeh ca;
- the dregs of medicine.
- tê ca;
- tea leaves that have been steeped.
- tè tīo ca;
- strain out the dregs.
- kbṳ̀ ca;
- take out the lees.
- hun-ca;
- the refuse left in the pipe after opium has been smoked.
- ca-cái;
- sediment.
- ca-jît;
- yesterday.
- i ca-jît cìaⁿ lâi;
- he came yesterday.
- úa ca-mêⁿ-hng m̄ cai kio i tàⁿ;
- I did not think to tell him last evening.
- ca-mêⁿ cn̂g kâi bŏi ût;
- I could not sleep at all last night.
- i sĭ ca-mn̂g-khí lâi a sĭ ca-ĕ-kùa lâi?
- Did he come yesterday morning or yesterday afternoon?
- sĭ ca-jît-tàu lâi;
- he came yesterday noon.
- ca-thàng;
- to sigh or moan.
- suaⁿ-ca; sien-ca;
- a sour fruit, the size of a cherry.
- kó-cá;
- in olden times.
- ho̤h cá;
- a considerable length of time since.
- cá sî; cá nî;
- in former times.
- kim cá m̄ tâng;
- it is not now as it-used to be.
- cá tiang-sî;
- a long time ago.
- cá-cá cū ŭ;
- in very ancient times there were.
- kó-cá kâi nâng;
- people of olden times.
- khah cá;
- too early.
- thiⁿ-kng-cá;
- at daylight.
- kúaⁿ cá;
- take time by the forelock.
- cá pn̄g;
- breakfast.
- cá nî;
- some years ago.
- tâng-cá;
- a little while ago.
- tâng cá ŭ;
- he had some just before.
- cá sîn;
- early dawn.
- cá cē;
- earlier.
- cá cai ŭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ, úa cĭu àiⁿ;
- had I known before that there were such, I should have wanted some.
- ṳ̆-pĭ cá cē;
- be ready in good time.
- úa tâng cá-cá thî-hûang i;
- I gave him warning in good time.
- cá khṳ̀, cá lâi;
- the sooner you go the sooner you will get back.
- cá chut, àm jîp;
- go out for a long day's work.
- cêk cá cĭu cáu-khí;
- get up betimes.
- cá tang, mn̄g tang;
- the early and the late crop.
- cá châng; mn̄g châng;
- the first and the second rice crop of the year.
- cá châng siu chek kâi sî-hāu, kìe-cò̤ cá tang;
- the time of harvesting the first crop of the year is called the early harvest.
- pó tōa cá a sĭ pó cá kíaⁿ?
- Did you plant the early or the later sort?
- cá mn̄g kâi sî-kè m̄ tâng;
- prices are different at the two harvests.
- úa tâng-cá cai;
- I knew it before.
- úa cá mn̄g cū kàu;
- I am there early and late.
- cá hŏ cá cêⁿ, ùaⁿ hŏ lâu mêⁿ;
- if it rains early in the morning the sky will soon clear, but if it rains late in the afternoon, it will rain all night.
- sĭ lṳ́ sĭang ŏi cá;
- you are the one who can do it soonest.
- cîah cá tê;
- take tea early in the morning.
- bŏi cá;
- cannot be punctual.
- kang-cà;
- delusive.
- cà-ngŭi;
- hypocritical.
- cà lêk;
- extort by a false claim.
- cà-phìen;
- fraudnlent,
- cà pēⁿ;
- a feigned illness.
- cà lîang cà jûah;
- now it is cold then it is warm; the weather is fitful.
- cà sie cà chìn;
- hot and cold alternately.
- cà khin cà tăng;
- better a little while and then worse again.
- cà hŏ cà cêⁿ;
- changeable weather, rain and sunshine alternating.
- kiaⁿ kàu cêk sin cā-cā-kìe;
- so frightened that my whole flesh crept.
- thóiⁿ tîeh koi-bó̤-phûe cā-cā-kìe lí-lí phû;
- on seeing it my flesh crept and goose-pimples came up all over me.