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giăm

Pronunciation Northern /zam˧˧/ Central /jam˧˥/ Southern /jam˧˧/
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five (dialect spelling)
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five (dialect spelling)
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2 senses
Meaning
2 senses
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Sense 1 Numeral
five (dialect spelling) Numbers, Quantities, Units & TimeTheme Numbers & unitsTag

A non-standard spelling of the number five, representing certain Northern Vietnamese dialects.

vi Ông ấy có giăm đứa con đang sống ở quê nhà.

en He has five children living in his hometown.

Sense 2 Numeral
five (dialect variant) Numbers, Quantities, Units & TimeTheme

A non-standard spelling used to represent a dialectal pronunciation of the word for five.

vi Họ đã đi bộ được giăm cây số trên con đường này.

en They have walked five kilometers along this road.

Parts
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
箴
Candidates by syllable
giăm 箴
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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