đầu cua tai nheo
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Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally "crab's head and catfish's ears".
Some articles also suggest that the morpheme tai here is not "ear", but Chinese 鰓 / 鳃 (“fish gill”) (SV: tai), so the phrase is instead "crab's head and catfish's gills".
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗəw˨˩ kuə˧˧ taːj˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗəw˦˩ kuə˧˧ taːj˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗəw˨˩ kuə˧˧ taːj˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]