hoài
Vietnamese
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edithoài (reduplication hoài hoài)
- (chiefly Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) ceaselessly, constantly, all the time
- 2005, Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, “Ơi Cải về đâu”, in Cánh đồng bất tận, Trẻ Publishing House:
- Rồi nó nghẹn ngào, "Còn tui, người ta đã quăng ở đây mười tám năm, tui chờ hoài mà có ai tìm đâu…"
- Then she said in a choked voice, "And me, they left me here eighteen years ago; I've been waiting forever but nobody has come looking for me…"
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Etymology 2
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edit- (to waste): uổng
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edithoài
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 怀
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 褢
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 𪊉
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 淭
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 毬
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 淮
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 褱
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 櫰
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 耲
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 懷
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 䃶
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edit- "hoài" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
- Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)