"kê" meaning in Vietnamese

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Noun

IPA: [ke˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [kej˧˧] [Huế], [kej˧˧] (note: Saigon) Forms: cây [classifier], hạt [classifier], [CJK], [CJK]
Etymology: Cognate with Muong Bi kiêl. Etymology templates: {{cog|mtq|-}} Muong Head templates: {{head|vi|noun|||head=|tr=嵇, 稽}} kê • (嵇, 稽), {{vi-noun|嵇, 稽|cls=cây, hạt}} (classifier cây, hạt) kê • (嵇, 稽)
  1. millet
    Sense id: en-kê-vi-noun-cUIEHYQt Categories (other): Vietnamese nouns classified by cây, Vietnamese nouns classified by hạt, Grains, Grasses, Paniceae tribe grasses Disambiguation of Grains: 28 21 26 25 Disambiguation of Grasses: 25 24 26 26 Disambiguation of Paniceae tribe grasses: 33 19 21 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: [ke˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [kej˧˧] [Huế], [kej˧˧] (note: Saigon) Forms: [CJK]
Etymology: Cognate with Muong Bi kêl. Unrelated to Old Chinese 支 (OC *ke) (B-S). Etymology templates: {{cog|mtq|-}} Muong, {{ncog|och|-}} Old Chinese, {{IPAfont|*ke}} *ke, {{och-l|支|tr=*ke}} 支 (OC *ke) Head templates: {{head|vi|verb|||head=|tr=計}} kê • (計), {{vi-verb|計}} kê • (計)
  1. to rest (a part of one's body) on something
    Sense id: en-kê-vi-verb-AFhJN27V Categories (other): Sino-Vietnamese words, Grains, Grasses Disambiguation of Sino-Vietnamese words: 24 8 20 25 24 Disambiguation of Grains: 28 21 26 25 Disambiguation of Grasses: 25 24 26 26
  2. (furniture) to place; to arrange; to put
    Sense id: en-kê-vi-verb-jMsw9-P5 Categories (other): Furniture, Sino-Vietnamese words, Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header, Grains, Grasses, Vietnamese links with redundant alt parameters, Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of Sino-Vietnamese words: 24 8 20 25 24 Disambiguation of Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header: 6 16 48 30 Disambiguation of Grains: 28 21 26 25 Disambiguation of Grasses: 25 24 26 26 Disambiguation of Vietnamese links with redundant alt parameters: 34 66 Disambiguation of Vietnamese links with redundant wikilinks: 41 59 Topics: furniture, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: [ke˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [kej˧˧] [Huế], [kej˧˧] (note: Saigon)
Etymology: Sino-Vietnamese word from 稽. Etymology templates: {{etymid|vi|稽}}, {{categorize|vi|Sino-Vietnamese words}}, {{vi-etym-sino|稽}} Sino-Vietnamese word from 稽 Head templates: {{head|vi|verb|||head=|tr=}} kê, {{vi-verb}} kê
  1. (medicine) to prescribe Synonyms (to prescribe): kê đơn Derived forms: kê đơn, kê khai, kiểm kê
    Sense id: en-kê-vi-verb-4jyPNrLW Categories (other): Medicine, Sino-Vietnamese words, Grains, Grasses Disambiguation of Sino-Vietnamese words: 24 8 20 25 24 Disambiguation of Grains: 28 21 26 25 Disambiguation of Grasses: 25 24 26 26 Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3
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      "sense": "to prescribe",
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Vietnamese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). 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.