See thầy on Wiktionary
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],
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"pos": "pron",
"related": [
{
"word": "mẹ"
},
{
"english": "mother",
"word": "u"
},
{
"english": "female teacher",
"word": "cô"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"I/me, your male teacher"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"you, my male teacher"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"he/him, that male teacher we're talking about"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Northern Vietnamese",
"Vietnamese dialectal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"I/me, your father"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal, Northern Vietnam) I/me, your father"
],
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Vietnam",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Northern Vietnamese",
"Vietnamese dialectal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"you, my father"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal, Northern Vietnam) you, my father"
],
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Vietnam",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Northern Vietnamese",
"Vietnamese dialectal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"he/him, your/my father"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal, Northern Vietnam) he/him, your/my father"
],
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Vietnam",
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[tʰəj˨˩]",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[tʰəj˦˩]",
"tags": [
"Huế"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[tʰəj˨˩]",
"note": "Saigon"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q9199 (vie)-Penn Zero MSSJ-thầy.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/02/LL-Q9199_%28vie%29-Penn_Zero_MSSJ-th%E1%BA%A7y.wav/LL-Q9199_%28vie%29-Penn_Zero_MSSJ-th%E1%BA%A7y.wav.mp3",
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}
],
"word": "thầy"
}
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