A Chinese-English dictionary / by Herbert Allen Giles.

  • Herbert Giles
Date:
1912
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Credit: A Chinese-English dictionary / by Herbert Allen Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 為 I2S R•黯 C. ckaf H. tsap、(sat F. chak W. tsa N. tsah P. fha、Uha、 、cha M. tsa Y. tsaa Sz. cha K. ch、al J. atsz、uchi A. trat Entering Upper. 126 To pul，up. To cut out paper images. To prick ； to pierce. Interchanged with 答il 142. 扎得慌 cold to the touch (character doubtful). 4起兩袖 Pulled up his two sleeves. 扎着胆子 screw up your courage. 扎掙 to make an effort. See 707. 扎掙不住 I cannot make the effort. 扎 paper images, such as hor¬ ses, houses, servants, etc., which are burnt in order to supply the dead with these necessaries of ordinary life. 扎實 S0Hd; conclusive. 扎得像 cut out to the life.. 扎花 to embroider flowers. +L 傷to stab. 扎死了stabbed to death. 刀扎 to stick with a knife. 扎破了 pricked a hole in. 扎住 to stick into. 扎猪 to stick a pig. 扎寨。1•扎營t。make stockade. 扎蔭克扎撒orig'nally> a ukase; a Dzassak, or chief¬ tain of a Mongol tribe, or of a Lamasery. 扎赉特⑽扎嚕持Dja laid and Djarud, 1 ames of Mon¬ gol tribes. See 182. 127 R•黠 See扎 J. satst、sathi Entering Upper. A thin wooden tablet, anciently used for writing ； a layer. A document sent from a superior to a subor¬ dinate. Polite term for a •- __ _ __ etter. To die prematurely ； the字話 says “a pesti- 127 CHA. 札” 紫1• 128 R•黯 P. c/j«, icha See^L Entering Upper. lence.” Interchanged with 答Ij 142. Numerative Qf 甲 1167. 簡札 writing tablets, used be¬ fore the invention of paper. 凡問答並以挚札』 the conversation was carried on by writing. 札文 a despatch from a superior to a subordinate; instructions. See 142. 來札 orders under acknowledg¬ ment ;your orders. 幸L orders to undertake some particular work; to commission. 札開 instructions stating. 札發 to despatch with orders. 札催 to write urging..., 札行to send instructions to. 札飭 to direct. 札司 to direct the Three (Pro¬ vincial) Commissioners. 華札 your flowery instructions, i.e. your valued favour; your letter. 雁札 goose document, i.e. your letter, from a story of a letter once conveyed by a goose. See 雁【3，i37- 射穿七札 the arrow pierced the seven layers of his armour. 民不夭札 the people do not die untimely deaths. To bind up； to tie in a bundle； to fasten. 紮綁'紮縛 to bind toge¬ ther; to tie up. 一紮花 a nosegay. 紮脚 to bind the feet of girls. See 6638. 紮帶子 to tighten the girdle. 紫I 緊 to bind up tight. 紮帳 to hook back the curtains. I紮東 to attach to; to bind on 紮1• 128 a* 129 1(.黠 P. ■^cha、(fha See札 Entering Upper. 鸷， 130 R•黠 P. Cc/ia See札 Entering. Upper. I3I R. vulgar. Even Upper. 揸 132 楂 133 134 R.麻 P. cha^ v. Ccha See棬 Even Upper. 裹 to bind round; to enve¬ lop; to wrap; to dress. A small species of cicada, with striped wings. the wheat locust. 竭智 a kind of * truxalis, or green grasshopper, which chirps incessantly. The term is applied to a woman with, a long tongue. A water bird, with a long bill and plumage of a lark, common in Chehkiang. 水货 a grebe. Also, small water- fowl ;snipe. 鵪鶉紮 the common snipe. The sound of indistinct utterances. To answer to a call = Yes, Sir. .[Should be 嗯533 in the last sense.] p査 P査亂叫[the sparrows] are twittering to each other. 喊喊 P查 P査 the sound of whis¬ pering. 喳得一聲 he called out cha (in reply to a summons). Read ch、a}, 打喳喳 •to whisper. See 157. Same as 155. Also used for 槎 a raft, 198. Sediment； dregs; .what is left after expressing the juice of anything*. 渣澤。>■渣兒 leavings^ sift ings; grounds. ^the refuse left aft)er de¬ cocting drugs. 八兔 broken star-aniseed 紫梗渣 shell-lac-
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