lái
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lai"
Mandarin edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
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Romanization edit
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 來/来
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 俫
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倈/俫
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 婡/𫝫
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孻/𡥧
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 崍/崃
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 庲/𫷬
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 律
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 徕
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 徟
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 徠/徕
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 来
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 梾
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 棶/梾
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 淶/涞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 猍/𰡎
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 琜/𱮾
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 筙
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 箂/
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 萊/莱
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逨
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 郲/𬩾
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錸/铼
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 騋/𱅕
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鯠/𱇭
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鶆/𱉵
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麳/𪎌
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黧
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Chinese 舵 (OC *lˤajʔ) (B-S) (SV: đà).
Verb edit
- (vehicles) to control; to drive, to ride, to pilot, etc.
- lái xe ― to drive a car
- (colloquial) to digress, to sidetrack, or to put one's own spin on
- Đừng có mà từ chuyện này lái qua chuyện khác.
- Don't you sidetrack to other things when we have this to discuss.
Noun edit
- steering wheel; steering control
- (nautical) rudder
- (by extension, nautical) aft; the stern portion of a boat
- (colloquial) Short for lái xe (“driver”) or lái đò (“boatman”).
- (colloquial) used to refer to a merchant or trader
Etymology 2 edit
Possibly related to trại (as in đọc trại (“to deviate in pronunciation”), nói trại). Likely also contaminated by the etymology above.
Verb edit
- (now not used in isolation, of pronunciation) to "switch" around sounds
- Synonym: nói phản thiết
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Likely from Sino-Tibetan. Compare Chinese 二 (MC nyijH).
Alternative forms edit
Numeral edit
lái
See also edit
(numerals in pig traders' cant) số đếm trong tiếng lóng lái lợn; chách (“one”), lái/nái (“two”), thâm (“three”), chớ (“four”), kẹo (“five”), mục (“six”), khắp/hấp (“seven”), bét (“eight”), khươm/khơm (“nine”), nạp/lạp (“ten”), (Category: vi:Numerals in pig traders' cant)