giáo
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Vietnamese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit](classifier cây, ngọn) giáo • (𨬊)
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Etymology 2
[edit]Sino-Vietnamese word from 教 (“to teach; teachings; religion”).
The suffix sense seems to be a rather recent learned borrowing from Chinese (and other Sino-Xenic languages), with words formed with this suffix being more formal than their counterparts with đạo.
Affix
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Suffix
[edit]giáo