dao cau
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areca knife
Noun
areca knife
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Meaning
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Noun
areca knife Household Objects, Tools & Maintenance
Kitchenware
A small knife with a specific shape used for cutting areca nuts or betel.
vi Bà tôi dùng dao cau để bổ quả cau.
en My grandmother uses an areca knife to cut the areca nut.
Parts
dao / cau / A compound of dao + cau …
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Parts
dao / cau / A compound of dao + cau …
OriginA compound of dao + cau
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
謠槁
Candidates by syllable
dao
謠（瑤）
cau
槁（槔 / 皋 / 皐 / 𥢐）
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.
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đồng dao / dao động ký / dao động / dao cạo …
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Use
đồng dao / dao động ký / dao động / dao cạo …