cà kê
Pronunciation
Northern
/ka̤ː˨˩ ke˧˧/
Central
/kaː˧˧ ke˧˥/
Southern
/kaː˨˩ ke˧˧/
to ramble or prattle
2 senses
2 Components
Verb
to ramble or prattle
Verb
to tell long stories
Details
2 senses
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Details
2 senses
Sense 1
Verb
to ramble or prattle
Core Actions
To cà kê means to ramble or prattle on about things in a long and aimless way.
vi Đừng cà kê mãi về những chuyện không quan trọng nữa.
en Stop rambling on about unimportant things anymore.
Sense 2
Verb
to tell long stories
The verb cà kê describes the act of telling long and detailed stories to other people.
vi Ông ấy thường cà kê kể cho chúng tôi nghe những kỷ niệm xưa.
en He often tells us long and detailed stories about old memories.
Form
Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
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Form
Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
袈筓
Candidates by syllable
cà
袈（鎶 / 𣘁）
kê
筓
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.