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tranh vân cẩu

Pronunciation Northern /ʨajŋ˧˧ vən˧˧ kə̰w˧˩˧/ Central /tʂan˧˥ jəŋ˧˥ kəw˧˩˨/ Southern /tʂan˧˧ jəŋ˧˧ kəw˨˩˦/
vicissitudes of life
Proper noun
vicissitudes of life

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Proper noun
vicissitudes of life Culture, Arts & Proper NamesTheme

A picture of clouds turning into the shape of a dog; refers to the unpredictable changes of life.

vi Thấy người bạn cũ từ giàu sang hóa túng quẫn, bố tôi thở dài nhắc đến tranh vân cẩu.

en Seeing his old friend go from wealth to poverty, my father sighed and invoked the allusion of clouds turning into the shape of a dog.

Parts
tranh / vân / cẩu …
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
爭云狗
Candidates by syllable
tranh 爭 vân 云(雲) cẩu 狗
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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chiến tranh / bức tranh / tranh cử / cạnh tranh …
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