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viễn đông

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Far East
Proper noun
Far East

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Meaning
1 senses
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Sense 1 Proper noun
Far East Culture, Arts & Proper NamesTheme Places, Buildings & Public ServicesTheme

Far East, Orient (a geographical region of Asia, consisting of East Asia (Korea, Japan, China, the Russian Far East, etc.) and Southeast Asia, taken as a whole).

vi Chú tôi đã từng làm việc ở Viễn Đông trong vài năm.

en My uncle once worked in the Far East for several years.

Parts
viễn / đông / Sino-Vietnamese; the character is 遠東 …
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OriginSino-Vietnamese; the character is 遠東

Chinese characters Source-aligned
Representative candidate
遠東
Candidates by syllable
viễn 远(遠) đông 東
Bold marks the representative form aligned to a source as the spelling of the whole word. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. Source and confidence are shown in the heading above.
Use
vĩnh viễn / kính viễn vọng / khoa học viễn tưởng / viễn chinh …
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