twn

  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.