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ru

Pronunciation Northern /zu˧˧/ Central /ʐu˧˥/ Southern /ɹu˧˧/
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lull to sleep
Verb
lull to sleep
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2 senses
Meaning
2 senses
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Verb

Sense 1 Verb
lull to sleep Family, Relationships & Life EventsTheme Daily Routine & Home LifeTheme

To sing gentle songs in order to help a small child fall into sleep.

vi Bà đang ru cháu ngủ.

en The grandmother is lulling the grandchild to sleep.

Particle

Sense 2 Particle
is it? (rhetorical) Pronouns, Demonstratives, Classifiers & ParticlesTheme

A word placed at the end of a sentence for negation or rhetorical questions.

vi Việc này khó lắm ru?

en Is this task really so difficult?

Parts
歟
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
歟
Candidates by syllable
ru 歟
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
ru rú / ru ngủ / ru hời / sing
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Use
hát ru / chu ru / giê ru sa lem / êm ru …
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