rết
Pronunciation
Northern
/zet˧˥/
Central
/ʐḛt˩˧/
Southern
/ɹəːt˧˥/
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centipede
Noun
centipede
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Meaning
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Meaning
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Sense 1
Noun
centipede Animals & Plants
A type of arthropod with a long, flattened body and a large number of pairs of legs.
vi Tôi vừa thấy một con rết bò ngang qua sân.
en I just saw a centipede crawling across the yard.
Parts
Inherited from Proto-Vietic / 蝎
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Parts
Inherited from Proto-Vietic / 蝎
OriginInherited from Proto-Vietic
Chinese characters
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Representative candidate
蝎
Candidates by syllable
rết
蝎（𧎴 / 𧏲）
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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rét
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rét
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rắn rết / Animals & Plants
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rắn rết / Animals & Plants