khởi kiện
Pronunciation
Northern
/xə̰ːj˧˩˧ kiə̰ʔn˨˩/
Central
/kʰəːj˧˩˨ kiə̰ŋ˨˨/
Southern
/kʰəːj˨˩˦ kiəŋ˨˩˨/
Listen
to sue; to litigate
Verb
to sue; to litigate
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Meaning
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Meaning
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Sense 1
Verb
to sue; to litigate
To sue means to start a legal process against someone in a court of law.
vi Họ quyết định khởi kiện công ty đó ra tòa.
en They decided to sue that company in court.
Parts
khởi / kiện / 起件
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Parts
khởi / kiện / 起件
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
起件
Candidates by syllable
khởi
起
kiện
件
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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