Mẹo
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [mɛw˧˨ʔ]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [mɛw˨˩ʔ]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [mɛw˨˩˨]
- Homophone: mẹo
Etymology 1 edit
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Proper noun edit
- (in Laos) Miao or Hmong, an Asian ethnic group whose homeland is in the mountainous regions around Guizhou, southern China, and northern Vietnam and Laos.
Synonyms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 卯 (SV: Mão). Some dictionaries (such as Thiều Chửu's) consider it as Sino-Vietnamese, but the nặng tone in Mẹo is unlikely to be developed from the Middle Chinese rising tone and eo is unlikely to be a Sino-Vietnamese rhyme, compared to the likely tone and rhyme in Mão. See also Tí, Thìn, Ngọ, Mùi.
Proper noun edit
- Rare form of Mão.