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lễ tâm

Pronunciation Northern /leʔe˧˥ təm˧˧/ Central /le˧˩˨ təm˧˥/ Southern /le˨˩˦ təm˧˧/
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bribe to officials
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bribe to officials

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Meaning
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Sense 1 unknown
bribe to officials

A gift that common people brought to officials, supposedly as a token of 'sincere' respect but in fact as a bribe.

vi Ông nội kể rằng ngày xưa nhà mình phải mang lễ tâm biếu quan lại.

en My paternal grandfather said that in the old days our family had to bring gifts to the officials as bribes.

Parts
lễ / tâm / 禮心
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
禮心
Candidates by syllable
lễ 禮 tâm 心
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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lễ hội / lễ vật / lễ phục / tuần lễ …
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