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kính lão

Pronunciation Northern /kïŋ˧˥ laʔaw˧˥/ Central /kḭ̈n˩˧ laːw˧˩˨/ Southern /kɨn˧˥ laːw˨˩˦/
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reading glasses
Noun
reading glasses
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Meaning
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Noun

Sense 1 Noun
reading glasses Core ActionsTheme

Special eyeglasses designed to help people with aging eyes see small print or close objects more clearly.

vi Ông tôi thường đeo kính lão khi đọc báo mỗi buổi sáng.

en My grandfather often wears reading glasses when reading the newspaper every morning.

Verb

Sense 2 Verb
respect elders

To show respect toward elderly people.

Parts
kính / lão / 敬老
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
敬老
Candidates by syllable
kính 敬 lão 老
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
trưởng lão / nguyệt lão / ông lão / hương lão …
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Use
kính lão đắc thọ / kính mắt / mắt kính / kính đeo mắt …
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