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ông ngoại

Pronunciation Northern /əwŋ˧˧ ŋwa̰ːʔj˨˩/ Central /əwŋ˧˥ ŋwa̰ːj˨˨/ Southern /əwŋ˧˧ ŋwaːj˨˩˨/
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maternal grandfather
Noun
maternal grandfather
1 senses 2 Components
Meaning
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Sense 1 Noun
maternal grandfather Family & FriendsTheme FamilyTag

This noun refers to the father of one's mother, known as the maternal grandfather.

vi Ông ngoại tôi thường kể chuyện ngày xưa cho tôi nghe.

en My maternal grandfather often tells me stories about the old days.

Parts
ông / ngoại / A compound of ông + ngoại …
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Components

Components

ông ngoại

OriginA compound of ông + ngoại

Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
翁外
Candidates by syllable
ông 翁 ngoại 外
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
ông / ông ấy / ông hoàng / ông bầu …
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Starts with this word

ông/ông ấy/ông hoàng/ông bầu/ông lão/ông tướng/ông nhõi

Ends with this word

thất ngoại/bà ngoại/nhập ngoại/sùng ngoại/khối ngoại/cháu ngoại/bên ngoại

Use
đàn ông / ông bà / ông xã / ông ba mươi …
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ông (grandfather) — words using
ngoại (foreign things) — words using
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