thảo
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Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Sino-Vietnamese word from 草. Doublet of tháu.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰaːw˧˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰaːw˧˨]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰaːw˨˩˦]
- Homophone: Thảo
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)
Noun
[edit](classifier cây) thảo
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[edit]Verb
[edit]thảo
- to write, to draft
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Truyện Kiều (傳翹) [The Tale of Kieu], Liễu Văn Ðường edition, published 1866, lines 1313 - 1314:
生 強 𤏣 強 𠸦 寫 情 𢬣 草 天 律 唐 - The young man conceived a great admiration for his sweetheart as he considered her qualities more deeply.
Unable to keep those sentiments to himself, he improved and wrote to her a poem in a particular form of Tang prosody.
- The young man conceived a great admiration for his sweetheart as he considered her qualities more deeply.
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[edit]Etymology 2
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