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ngục lại

Pronunciation Northern /ŋṵʔk˨˩ la̰ːʔj˨˩/ Central /ŋṵk˨˨ la̰ːj˨˨/ Southern /ŋuk˨˩˨ laːj˨˩˨/
prison officer
Noun
prison officer
1 senses 2 Components
Meaning
1 senses
Sense 1 Noun
prison officer Discourse & LogicTheme

A person whose job is to supervise and guard prisoners in a jail.

vi Người ngục lại đang đi kiểm tra các phòng giam vào buổi tối.

en The prison officer is checking the cells in the evening.

Parts
ngục / lại / 獄吏
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
獄吏
Candidates by syllable
ngục lại
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
ngục / ngục thất / ngục tù / ngục tối …
Use
địa ngục / hoả ngục / hạ ngục / luyện ngục …
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