xuôi

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [suəj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [suj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [suj˧˧]

Adjective

xuôi • (𠀿)

1. in the "usual", "expected" or "conforming" direction

   thuận buồm xuôi gió ― smooth sailing (literally, “the sail is following the wind flow”)

   miền xuôi và miền ngược ― the lowlands and the highlands (literally, “the low regions to which you can easily go down, and the high regions to which you have to climb up against gravity”)

Noun

xuôi

1. Short for miền xuôi.

   về xuôi ― to go back to the lowlands where one came from

Verb

xuôi • (𣵶)

1. (literary) to go with the flow; to go downstream

   xuôi dòng sông... ― to go with the flow of/downstream the river.../...River

   xuôi dòng sông La ― to go with the flow of/downstream the La River

Antonyms

• ngược