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phá gia chi tử

Pronunciation
prodigal child
Noun
prodigal child

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1 senses 3 Components
Meaning
1 senses
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Sense 1 Noun
prodigal child Feelings, Appearance & PersonalityTheme

A child who recklessly wastes or squanders the inherited wealth and fortune of their family.

vi Anh ta là một kẻ phá gia chi tử khi tiêu hết tài sản của cha mẹ vào việc chơi bời.

en He is a prodigal child for spending all his parents' fortune on partying.

Parts
phá gia / chi / tử …
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Components

Components

phá gia chi tử

OriginSino-Vietnamese; the character is 破家之

Chinese characters Source-aligned
Representative candidate
破家之
Candidates by syllable
phá 破 gia 家 chi 支 tử 子
Bold marks the representative form aligned to a source as the spelling of the whole word. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. Source and confidence are shown in the heading above.
Use
chi nhánh / chi tiết / chi phiếu / chi trả …
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chi (genus) — words using
tử (to die) — words using

Themes and tags

Feelings, Appearance & PersonalityTheme

Questions and answers

What does “phá gia chi tử” mean?

In English, “phá gia chi tử” means “prodigal child”.

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