chày

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See also: chay, cháy, chấy, chảy, and chạy

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *tʃ-reː. The nominal derivative of xay (“to grind”).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaj˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaj˦˩]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ca(ː)j˨˩]

Noun

(classifier cây, cái, chiếc) chày • (𣖖, 𣖗, 𪲻)

a pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things)
(by extension, baseball, softball) a bat
bóng chày
baseball

See also

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