con đỏ

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See also: condo

Vietnamese

Etymology

From con (child) +‎ đỏ (red), calque of Chinese 赤子 (xích tử, newborn baby). Compare Japanese 赤子 (akago).

Pronunciation

Noun

con đỏ

  1. (literary, rare, chiefly in modern translations of old texts) the commoners; the commons; the people