cù lao
Pronunciation
Northern
/kṳ˨˩ laːw˧˧/
Central
/ku˧˧ laːw˧˥/
Southern
/ku˨˩ laːw˧˧/
river island
3 senses
3 meanings
2 Components
Noun
river island
Noun
islet
Noun
toil
Details
3 senses · 3 meanings
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Details
3 senses · 3 meanings
river island
Sense 1
Noun
river island
Landforms & Environment
A strip of land rising in the middle of a river, formed by the natural accumulation of silt from the current over years.
vi Một dải đất nổi lên giữa sông được gọi là cù lao.
en A strip of land rising in a river is called a river island.
islet
Sense 1
Noun
islet
A small island or raised tract of land in a river, especially in Southern Vietnam.
vi Người dân sống trên cù lao giữa sông Tiền.
en People live on the river island in the Tiền River.
toil
Sense 1
Noun
toil
Painstaking labor or deep obligation, especially the debt owed to parents for birth and upbringing.
vi Con cái không quên chín chữ cù lao của cha mẹ.
en Children do not forget the deep debt owed to their parents.
Form
Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
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Form
Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
劬勞
Candidates by syllable
cù
劬（虯 / 𡵺）
lao
勞（牢 / 嘮 / 嶗 / 癆）
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.