khều

Vietnamese

Etymology

This word might have caused intense contamination to the Sino-Vietnamese reading of the semantically similar 挑 (MC thew) (SV: khiêu), resulted in a very irregular reading.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [xew˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kʰew˦˩] ~ [xew˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kʰew˨˩] ~ [xew˨˩]

Verb

khều • (挑)

to use hand or other tools to pull something toward oneself

Derived terms

khều móc

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