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Meaning
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to cost; to take
To cost or take (money, time, effort, etc.); to require spending a lot of resources on something.
vi Công việc này rất tốn thời gian và công sức.
en This work is very time- and energy-consuming.
Xun trigram
One of the eight trigrams used in Chinese philosophy and cosmology, representing the wind and the direction of southeast.
vi Quẻ Tốn đại diện cho gió trong bát quái.
en The Xun trigram represents wind in the eight trigrams.