"bé" meaning in Vietnamese

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Adjective

IPA: [ʔɓɛ˧˦] [Hà-Nội], [ʔɓɛ˨˩˦] [Huế], [ʔɓɛ˦˥] [Hồ-Chí-Minh-City] Forms: 𡮣 [CJK], 𡭬 [CJK], 𡮤 [CJK]
Etymology: From Old Chinese 庳 (*beʔ) (SV: ti, tì). Etymology templates: {{bor|vi|och|庳}} Old Chinese 庳 (*beʔ), {{m|vi|ti}} ti, {{m|vi|tì}} tì Head templates: {{head|vi|adjective|||||head=|tr=𡮣, 𡭬, 𡮤}} bé • (𡮣, 𡭬, 𡮤), {{vi-adj|𡮣, 𡭬, 𡮤}} bé • (𡮣, 𡭬, 𡮤)
  1. small; little; tiny Synonyms: nhỏ
    Sense id: en-bé-vi-adj-rdecVdsz
  2. little; very young
    Sense id: en-bé-vi-adj-GG2FTLNi
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bé bỏng (từ láy), bé nhỏ, bé tí, bé tị, bé xíu, cô bé, em bé, nhỏ bé

Noun

IPA: [ʔɓɛ˧˦] [Hà-Nội], [ʔɓɛ˨˩˦] [Huế], [ʔɓɛ˦˥] [Hồ-Chí-Minh-City]
Etymology: From Old Chinese 庳 (*beʔ) (SV: ti, tì). Etymology templates: {{bor|vi|och|庳}} Old Chinese 庳 (*beʔ), {{m|vi|ti}} ti, {{m|vi|tì}} tì Head templates: {{head|vi|noun|||head=|tr=}} bé, {{vi-noun}} bé
  1. Short for em bé (“baby”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: em bé (extra: baby) Categories (topical): Children, Female, People
    Sense id: en-bé-vi-noun-piu8t2eH Disambiguation of Children: 2 8 39 16 29 6 Disambiguation of Female: 6 0 94 0 0 0 Disambiguation of People: 0 0 47 53 0 0 Categories (other): Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header, Vietnamese nouns without classifiers, Vietnamese pronouns Disambiguation of Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header: 2 1 91 0 6 0 Disambiguation of Vietnamese nouns without classifiers: 11 8 60 3 15 3 Disambiguation of Vietnamese pronouns: 5 3 48 15 15 15

Pronoun

IPA: [ʔɓɛ˧˦] [Hà-Nội], [ʔɓɛ˨˩˦] [Huế], [ʔɓɛ˦˥] [Hồ-Chí-Minh-City]
Etymology: From Old Chinese 庳 (*beʔ) (SV: ti, tì). Etymology templates: {{bor|vi|och|庳}} Old Chinese 庳 (*beʔ), {{m|vi|ti}} ti, {{m|vi|tì}} tì Head templates: {{head|vi|pronoun|head=|tr=}} bé, {{vi-pronoun}} bé
  1. you, little child Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-bé-vi-pron-R1MRSbOo Disambiguation of People: 0 0 47 53 0 0
  2. (informal) you, young person Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-bé-vi-pron-r3X5IMwW
  3. (informal) you, young girl Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-bé-vi-pron-PajiZ9HF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: trẻ

Alternative forms

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      "word": "bé bỏng"
    },
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      "word": "bé nhỏ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bé tí"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bé tị"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bé xíu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cô bé"
    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
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      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) you, young person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Vietnamese informal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "you, young girl"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) you, young girl"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔɓɛ˧˦]",
      "tags": [
        "Hà-Nội"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔɓɛ˨˩˦]",
      "tags": [
        "Huế"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔɓɛ˦˥]",
      "tags": [
        "Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bé"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Vietnamese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.