lầu
Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 樓 (SV: lâu).
Pronunciation
Noun
lầu
- (history) a multistory building
- Tại lầu Hoàng Hạc tiễn Mạnh Hạo Nhiên đi Quảng Lăng
- At the Yellow Crane Tower, I saw Meng Haoran off to Guangling
- (architecture, chiefly Southern Vietnam) a floor (except the ground floor)
- lầu 1
- the 1st/2nd floor (1 level above the ground story)
- nhà lầu
- a multistory house
- nhảy lầu tự tử
- to jump off a high floor to kill oneself