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tây thi

Pronunciation Northern /təj˧˧ tʰi˧˧/ Central /təj˧˥ tʰi˧˥/ Southern /təj˧˧ tʰi˧˧/
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Xi Shi
Proper noun
Xi Shi

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Proper noun
Xi Shi

Name of a famous beauty of the Spring and Autumn period, surnamed Shi with the given name Yiguang, whose home was in Zhuluo Village to the west of Ruoye Stream, hence called Xi Shi (the girl of the Shi family in the west).

vi Chị gái tôi rất thích đọc những giai thoại lịch sử về nàng Tây Thi.

en My older sister loves reading historical anecdotes about Xi Shi.

Parts
tây / thi / 西詩
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
西詩
Candidates by syllable
tây 西 thi 詩
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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khoai tây / phương tây / hành tây / sơn tây …
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