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Chinese
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differ from; short of; to lack differ from; short of; to lack; poor; send; a messenger; a mission; to commission; uneven; difference; discrepancy; to differ; error; to err; to make a mistake |
to use
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差
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用
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差
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用
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Pronunciation
Verb
差用
- (Hokkien) to send (on an errand, mission, etc.); to dispatch; to deploy; to assign; to command; to commission; to order about
我是予人咧差用。 [Hokkien, trad. and simp.]- Góa sī hō͘ lâng le̍h chhe-ēng. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- I have people sent on errands.
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Further reading
- Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “chhe-ēng”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 66; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 66