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tào lao

Pronunciation Northern /ta̤ːw˨˩ laːw˧˧/ Central /taːw˧˧ laːw˧˥/ Southern /taːw˨˩ laːw˧˧/
Listen
nonsensical or idle
Adjective
nonsensical or idle
1 senses 2 Components
Meaning
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Sense 1 Adjective
nonsensical or idle Appearance & PersonalityTheme

Describing words or actions that are idle, silly, or make very little sense.

vi Bạn đừng nên nghe những lời tào lao đó.

en You should not listen to those nonsensical words.

Parts
tào / lao / 嘈勞
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Components

Components

tào lao
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
嘈勞
Candidates by syllable
tào 嘈（曹） lao 勞（牢 / 嘮 / 嶗 / 癆）
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
xàm / Tào Tháo rượt / tào / tào phớ …
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Easily confused

Same meaning
  • xàmAdjectivenonsense
Starts with this word

Tào Tháo rượt/tào/tào phớ/tào khang/tào khương

Meaning links

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idle vi: tào lao / ja: 無意味 / WordNet aligned
Use
nam tào / thầy tào / tào tháo rượt / tào thực …
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tào (eye dialect spelling) — words using
lao (harpoon) — words using
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