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lăm

Pronunciation Northern /lam˧˧/ Central /lam˧˥/ Southern /lam˧˧/
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five (after tens)
Numeral
five (after tens)
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2 senses
Meaning
2 senses
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Numeral

Sense 1 Numeral
five (after tens) Numbers, Quantities, Units & TimeTheme Numbers & unitsTag

A variant of "năm" (five) used only after tens, as in mười lăm (15) and hai mươi lăm (25).

vi Lớp tôi có hai mươi lăm học sinh.

en My class has twenty-five students.

Verb

Sense 2 Verb
intend Numbers, Quantities, Units & TimeTheme

To have the intention or plan to do a specific action.

vi Anh ta lăm làm chuyện xấu nhưng đã bị ngăn chặn.

en He intended to do something bad but was stopped.

Parts
啉
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
啉
Candidates by syllable
lăm 啉(𠄻)
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
lâm / lầm / lậm / làm …
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Use
mười lăm / cà lăm / ba lăm / bao lăm …
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