xe lam
Pronunciation
Northern
/sɛ˧˧ laːm˧˧/
Central
/sɛ˧˥ laːm˧˥/
Southern
/sɛ˧˧ laːm˧˧/
Listen
tuk tuk
Noun
tuk tuk
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Meaning
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Meaning
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Sense 1
Noun
tuk tuk
A small three-wheeled vehicle used as a public taxi in many Southeast Asian countries.
vi Chúng tôi đi xe lam để dạo quanh thành phố.
en We took a tuk tuk to go around the city.
Parts
xe / lam / Borrowed from Italian …
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Parts
xe / lam / Borrowed from Italian …
OriginBorrowed from Italian
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
𦀺藍
Candidates by syllable
xe
𦀺
lam
藍（婪）
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.