me tây
Pronunciation
Northern
/mɛ˧˧ təj˧˧/
Central
/mɛ˧˥ təj˧˥/
Southern
/mɛ˧˧ təj˧˧/
pro-Western individual
3 senses
2 Components
Noun
pro-Western individual
Noun
western wedded woman
Noun
alternative form of me Tây
Details
3 senses
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Details
3 senses
Sense 1
Noun
pro-Western individual
Discourse & Logic
A derogatory term for a person who shows excessive preference for Western culture and dislikes their own country.
vi Anh ấy thường bị chỉ trích là một me tây vì quá sính ngoại.
en He is often criticized as a pro-Western individual for being too Westernized.
Sense 2
Noun
western wedded woman
A historical term for a Vietnamese woman who is married to or has a relationship with a French man.
vi Đây là một thuật ngữ cũ dùng để chỉ những người phụ nữ kết hôn với người phương Tây.
en This is an old term used to refer to women married to Westerners.
Sense 3
Noun
alternative form of me Tây
An alternative way of writing the term 'me Tây' using different capitalization.
vi Từ này đôi khi được viết là me tây thay vì me Tây trong một số văn bản.
en This word is sometimes written as me tây instead of me Tây in some texts.
Form
Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
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Form
Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
楣西
Candidates by syllable
me
楣
tây
西
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.