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oa ngưu

Pronunciation Northern /waː˧˧ ŋiw˧˧/ Central /waː˧˥ ŋɨw˧˥/ Southern /waː˧˧ ŋɨw˧˧/
snail
Proper noun
snail

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Proper noun
snail

A small animal with a flattened round shape, soft body, horns on its head with eyes at the tips; Zhuangzi once remarked that countries could be founded on the horns of a snail to denote tininess.

vi Thầy giáo đang giảng về câu chuyện sừng con Oa Ngưu trong sách Trang Tử.

en The teacher is lecturing on the story of the horns of the Oa Ngưu in Zhuangzi's book.

Parts
oa / ngưu / 呱牛
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
呱牛
Candidates by syllable
oa 呱(喎 / 媧) ngưu 牛
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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oa trữ / nữ oa / trảo oa / bà nữ oa …
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