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monster
Noun
monster
2 senses
2 Components
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2 senses
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2 senses
Sense 1
Noun
monster
Culture & Proper Nouns
A type of monster or ghost often used in stories to frighten children into behaving well.
vi Con đừng khóc nữa kẻo ông kẹ bắt đi đấy.
en Stop crying or the monster will take you away.
Sense 2
Noun
bogeyman
An imaginary and frightening character that adults tell children about to encourage good behavior.
vi Người lớn thường dùng ông kẹ để dọa trẻ em không ngoan.
en Adults often use the bogeyman to encourage good behavior in children.
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Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
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Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
chữ Nôm
Source-aligned
Representative candidate
翁偈
Candidates by syllable
ông
翁
kẹ
彐（𫜹）
Bold marks the representative form aligned to a source as the spelling of the whole word. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. Source and confidence are shown in the heading above.