xấu
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 醜 (“ugly”, SV: xú).
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [səw˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [səw˨˩˦]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [səw˦˥]
- Homophone: sấu (depending on dialect)
Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City) (file)
Adjective edit
xấu
- ugly; hideous
- Antonym: đẹp
- xấu òm / xấu hoắc ― ugly as heck
- Tên gì xấu quá vậy?
- What an awful name!
- bad; of low quality
- Antonym: tốt
- gạo xấu ― bad rice
- bad; wicked
- Antonym: tốt
- kẻ xấu ― a bad person
- theo nghĩa xấu ― in the pejorative sense
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