ba khía
Pronunciation
Northern
/ɓaː˧˧ xiə˧˥/
Central
/ɓaː˧˥ kʰḭə˩˧/
Southern
/ɓaː˧˧ kʰiə˧˥/
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marsh crab
Noun
marsh crab
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Noun
marsh crab Discourse & Logic
A type of small crab that lives in brackish water and is popular in Vietnamese cuisine.
vi Chúng tôi bắt được nhiều ba khía ở bãi bồi.
en We caught many marsh crabs on the mudflats.
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Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
爸㓶
Candidates by syllable
ba
爸
khía
㓶
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.