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hồ lơ

Pronunciation Northern /ho̤˨˩ ləː˧˧/ Central /ho˧˧ ləː˧˥/ Southern /ho˨˩ ləː˧˧/
starch and blue
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starch and blue
1 senses 2 Components
Meaning
1 senses
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Sense 1 unknown
starch and blue

To apply a mixture of starch and bluing agent to clothes to make them crisp.

vi Phụ nữ ngày xưa thường hồ lơ quần áo.

en Women used to starch and blue their clothes.

Parts
hồ / lơ / 湖籚
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Components

Components

hồ lơ
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
湖籚
Candidates by syllable
hồ 湖 lơ 籚（嚧 / 𠰷）
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.
Similar
hồ lô / làm lơ / xà lơ / quay lơ …
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Easily confused

Same spelling, different tone
Ends with this word

làm lơ/xà lơ/quay lơ/mọi cà lơ/bảng lảng bơ lơ

Use
đồng hồ / hồ sơ / hồ tiêu / cơ hồ …
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hồ (lake) — words using
lơ (ignore) — words using
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