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khải

Pronunciation Northern /xa̰ːj˧˩˧/ Central /kʰaːj˧˩˨/ Southern /kʰaːj˨˩˦/
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Meaning
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Verb

Sense 1 Verb
scratch

A North Central Vietnamese regional variant of "gãi," meaning to rub skin with fingernails to relieve itching.

vi Đừng khải mạnh quá sẽ làm trầy da và gây đau đấy.

en Do not scratch too hard or you will scrape your skin and cause pain.

Proper noun

Sense 2 Proper noun
male given name

A male given name from Chinese.

vi Bạn Khải đã cho tôi mượn cuốn sách giáo khoa vào sáng nay.

en My friend Khải lent me a textbook this morning.

Parts
凱
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
凱
Candidates by syllable
khải 凱
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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khái / khải huyền / khải hoàn ca / khải thư …
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Use
mặc khải / sách khải huyền / sảng khải / vũ phạm khải …
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