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thảm thê

Pronunciation Northern /tʰa̰ːm˧˩˧ tʰe˧˧/ Central /tʰaːm˧˩˨ tʰe˧˥/ Southern /tʰaːm˨˩˦ tʰe˧˧/
heartbreaking
Adjective
heartbreaking
1 senses 2 Components
Meaning
1 senses
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Sense 1 Adjective
heartbreaking Properties & StatesTheme

Extremely tragic, miserable, and heartbreaking (an inverted form of "thê thảm").

Parts
thảm / thê / 慘妻
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Components

Components

thảm thê
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
慘妻
Candidates by syllable
thảm 慘 thê 妻（淒 / 悽 / 栖 / 稊）
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.
Use
thảm hại / thảm thương / buồn thảm / thảm đạm …
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thảm (carpet) — words using
thê (wife) — words using
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