tía
Pronunciation
Northern
/tiə˧˥/
Central
/tḭə˩˧/
Southern
/tiə˧˥/
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father
Noun
father
3 senses
Meaning
3 senses
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Meaning
3 senses
Noun
Sense 1
Noun
father
Pronouns & Demonstratives
A casual or regional term used to refer to one's father or male parent.
vi Tía tôi đang làm việc ở ngoài đồng.
en My father is working in the field.
Pronoun
Sense 2
Pronoun
sir
A term used to address one's father, especially in Southern Vietnamese.
vi Tía ơi, tía đi đâu đó?
en Dad, where are you going?
Adjective
Sense 3
Adjective
purple
Having a color that is a mixture of red and blue, like a dark grape.
vi Cô ấy đang mặc một chiếc áo màu tía.
en She is wearing a purple shirt.
Parts
紫
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Parts
紫
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
紫
Candidates by syllable
tía
紫
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
tỉa
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Similar
tỉa
Use
đỏ tía / tía lia / tia tía / tía tô …
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Use
đỏ tía / tía lia / tia tía / tía tô …