cam
- chng cam;
- thread a needle.
- bûa cam;
- polish a needle.
- cò̤ cam;
- make needles.
- tōa cam, jī cam, saⁿ cam, cam kíaⁿ;
- large, medium sized, fine, and very fine needles.
- tōa kong cam;
- a darning needle.
- hue cam;
- an embroidery needle.
- cam khang, cam búe;
- the eye and the point of a needle.
- cam phīⁿ;
- the end of a needle opposite the point.
- cam kha khah hi;
- the stitches are too long.
- tîeh bâk cam cē;
- you must sew it more finely.
- cí kâi hŭ-jîn hó̤ cam-cí;
- this woman is a good sewer.
- hâng-sú-cam;
- a thermometer.
- huang-hŏ-cam;
- a barometer.
- sî-ceng cam;
- the hands of a clock.
- pang-cam; thng-sî cam;
- the pin used to fasten the coiffure.
- jû cŏ̤ cam-ciⁿ;
- as if sitting on needles.
- ēng cam lâi thie tīo i kâi hueh;
- get a lancet and bleed him.
- cam huap;
- the rules for acupuncture.
- cêk cam kìⁿ hueh;
- one puncture brought the blood.
- cam kù;
- to probe.
- cam-tùi;
- point to point.
- cam-tùi móng nâng tàⁿ;
- it refers to what a certain person said.
- thih póiⁿ bûa cîaⁿ sìu-hue cam;
- an iron ferule may be ground down into an embroidery needle.
- cam hue;
- to put flowers in the hair.
- cam ēng;
- to put a tassel into a cap.
- hue cam, hue lúi;
- sprays and flowers, used as head ornaments.
- cám châ;
- to cut wood.
- cám khui;
- to sunder.
- cám tīo;
- chop it off.
- cám thâu;
- to behead.
- cám chīu lîah cío;
- to cut down the tree in order to catch the bird.
- cám cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;
- cut it in two.
- ēng pó-thâu cìaⁿ hó̤ cám;
- take an axe and then you can chop it off.
- cám cháu tṳ̂ kṳn;
- to cut down the weeds and extirpate their roots; to wholly exterminate; to cut off all one's posterity.
- cám teng côih thih;
- to cut off a nail.
- cám síu sī cèng;
- to decapitate as a warning to others; to make an oxample of.
- kìe cám cŭe;
- a capital crime.
- kam cám kuaⁿ;
- a sheriff.
- cám, ká, kun, lîu, thû, sĭ ngŏ īeⁿ hêng huap;
- beheading, hanging, sending into the army, temporary banishment, and perpetual banishment, are the five methods of punishment.
- càm-cǹg;
- to defame.
- i hàuⁿ càm-cǹg nâng;
- he is addicted to slandering people.
- càm-cǹg kùe lâi, càm-cǹg kùe khṳ̀;
- backbiting each the other.
- căm kíaⁿ;
- a graving tool.
- căm hue;
- to grave flowers.
- căm khṳ̀ hue-cháu ngía căi;
- the carving was beautifully done.
- căm lâi hue-jī m̄ hīn;
- the letters are are not plainly cut.
- tîeh căm chim cē;
- they must be cut deeper.
- khah tōiⁿ, căm m̄ lô̤h;
- the stuff is too hard, it cannot be chiseled out.
- ngṳ̂n căm;
- chasing on silver.
- căm hue kâi nâng;
- the graver.
- màiⁿ căm khih khṳ̀;
- do not break it in chiseling it.
- cîeh căm;
- a stone-cutter's chisel.
- cía khang tîeh căm khuah cē, cìaⁿ tàu tit lô̤h;
- this hole must be cut larger, so the plug will go in.
- căm chùi cē;
- cut it more delicately.
- îah căm;
- the distance between post houses.
- cêk căm lō;
- one stage of a journey.
- tŏ̤ cí-kò̤ kàu hṳ́-kò̤ ŭ kúi căm lō̤?
- How many stages from here there?
- lō-căm àiⁿ cò̤-nî pheⁿ-phah?
- What route have you decided upon?
- thâu căm kàu tī-kò̤?
- What is the first stopping place?
- jī căm kàu hṳ́-kò̤;
- that will be the second stopping place on the route.