xấu
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 醜 (“ugly”, SV: xú).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [səw˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [səw˨˩˦]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [səw˦˥]
- Homophone: sấu (depending on dialect)
Audio (Saigon): (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
Derived terms
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