viện dưỡng lão
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nursing home
Noun
nursing home
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Noun
nursing home Places, Buildings & Public Services
Health, Diet & Medical Care
A facility that provides residential care and medical assistance for elderly people.
vi Ông tôi đang sống trong một viện dưỡng lão.
en My grandfather is living in a nursing home.
Parts
viện / dưỡng lão / A compound of viện + dưỡng lão …
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Parts
viện / dưỡng lão / A compound of viện + dưỡng lão …
OriginA compound of viện + dưỡng lão
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
院養老
Candidates by syllable
viện
院
dưỡng
養
lão
老
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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bệnh viện / thư viện / viện bảo tàng / viện đại học …
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bệnh viện / thư viện / viện bảo tàng / viện đại học …