tốt

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tot"

Vietnamese edit

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tot̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tok̚˦˧˥]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tok̚˦˥]

Etymology 1 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “The Common-Viet-Muong form would be *soːc.”)

Cognate with Muong Bi thốch (“good, beautiful”).

Adjective edit

tốt • (卒, 𡨧, 𡄰, 𬙼)

good, as in high-quality, well-made, well executed, good-natured or ethical; compare hay (“good as in inventive, brilliant or entertaining”) and giỏi (“good as in skilled or competent”)
Antonym: xấu

gạo tốt ― good rice

người tốt ― a good person; good people
(of head hair or facial hair) very dense or long, more so than it should be
Tóc tốt quá rồi, phải đi cắt thôi.
My hair's getting out of hand. I gotta get it cut.

Etymology 2 edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from 卒.

Alternative forms edit

chốt

Noun edit

(classifier con, quân) tốt

(xiangqi) soldier, a piece labeled with the characters 卒 (black) and 兵 (binh, red)
(by extension, chess) pawn
(figurative) pawn

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

binh

Chess pieces in Vietnamese · quân cờ vua (layout · text)

vua	hậu	xe, xa	tượng, tịnh	mã	tốt, chốt

tốt

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