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ma đói

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hungry ghost
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hungry ghost

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Noun
hungry ghost Culture, Arts & Proper NamesTheme

A supernatural being in folklore that is condemned to suffer from constant and unsatisfied hunger.

vi Trong truyền thuyết, ma đói luôn đi lang thang để tìm kiếm thức ăn.

en In legend, the hungry ghost always wanders looking for food.

Parts
ma / đói / A compound of ma + đói …
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OriginA compound of ma + đói

Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
麻𩛜
Candidates by syllable
ma 麻(魔) đói 𩛜(𩟡)
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
nhịn đói / chết đói / chó đói
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Use
bóng ma / con ma / tẩu hỏa nhập ma / phim ma …
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