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cố tri

Pronunciation Northern /ko˧˥ ʨi˧˧/ Central /ko̰˩˧ tʂi˧˥/ Southern /ko˧˥ tʂi˧˧/
old friend
Noun
old friend
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2 senses 2 Components
Meaning
2 senses
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Noun

Sense 1 Noun
old friend

A term used to refer to a person who has been a close friend for a long time.

vi Tôi tình cờ gặp lại một người cố tri sau nhiều năm xa cách.

en I happened to meet an old friend again after many years apart.

Adjective

Sense 2 Adjective
old friend

Used as an adjective to describe someone who is an old and long-standing friend to someone else.

vi Họ là những người bạn cố tri của nhau.

en They are old friends of each other.

Parts
cố / tri / 故知
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
故知
Candidates by syllable
cố 故(固 / 顧) tri 知
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
cơ trí / thông tri / cử tri / tương tri …
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Use
ôn cố tri tân / cố gắng / biến cố / sự cố …
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