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nỡ

Pronunciation Northern /nəʔə˧˥/ Central /nəː˧˩˨/ Southern /nəː˨˩˦/
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bring oneself to do
Verb
bring oneself to do
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bring oneself to do Comparison & ModalityTheme

To be able to bring oneself to do something, often something unkind.

vi Tôi không nỡ mắng đứa trẻ khi thấy nó đang khóc nức nở.

en I could not bring myself to scold the child when I saw him crying bitterly.

Parts
𡝖
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
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Candidates by syllable
nỡ 𡝖
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
nó / nọ / nõ / nò …
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Easily confused

Same spelling, different tone
Starts with this word

nỡ nào/nỡ lòng nào

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Common expressions

nỡ tâm há nỡ nỡ tay sao nỡ
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