cá thia

Vietnamese

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Họ Cá thia

Etymology

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Particularly: “not sure what "thia" means here. an obscure adjective or verb? or a particular noun referring to its fish? the nom characters for cá thia are 𩵜𩸸 fwiw”

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˦ tʰiə˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kaː˨˩˦ tʰiə˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaː˦˥ tʰiə˧˧]

Noun

(classifier con) cá thia • (𩵜𩸸)

a fish belonging to the family Pomacentridae: the damselfishes and clownfishes