tào lao
Pronunciation
Northern
/ta̤ːw˨˩ laːw˧˧/
Central
/taːw˧˧ laːw˧˥/
Southern
/taːw˨˩ laːw˧˧/
nonsensical or idle
1 senses
2 Components
Adjective
nonsensical or idle
Details
1 senses
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Details
1 senses
Sense 1
Adjective
nonsensical or idle
Appearance & Personality
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.
Form
Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
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Form
Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
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.