xuôi
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
- in the "usual", "expected" or "conforming" direction
- thuận buồm xuôi gió ― smooth sailing (literally, “the sail is following the wind flow”)
- miền xuôi và miền ngược ― the lowlands and the highlands (literally, “the low regions to which you can easily go down, and the high regions to which you have to climb up against gravity”)
Noun edit
xuôi
- Short for miền xuôi.
- về xuôi ― to go back to the lowlands where one came from
Verb edit
- (literary) to go with the flow; to go downstream
- xuôi dòng sông... ― to go with the flow of/downstream the river.../...River
- xuôi dòng sông La ― to go with the flow of/downstream the La River