See Cuội in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"expansion": "Cuội",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"head": "Cuội"
},
"expansion": "Cuội",
"name": "vi-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Vietnamese humorous terms"
],
"glosses": [
"to backtrack"
],
"links": [
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"backtrack",
"backtrack#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(humorous) to backtrack"
],
"tags": [
"humorous"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[kuəj˧˨ʔ]",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[kuj˨˩ʔ]",
"tags": [
"Huế"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[kuj˨˩˨]",
"note": "Saigon"
},
{
"homophone": "cuội"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Alexandre de Rhodes",
"Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum",
"Huỳnh Tịnh Của",
"Pierre Pigneau de Behaine",
"Trương Vĩnh Ký"
],
"word": "Cuội"
}
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