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vẫy

Pronunciation Northern /vəʔəj˧˥/ Central /jəj˧˩˨/ Southern /jəj˨˩˦/
Listen
to wave
Verb
to wave
1 senses
Meaning
1 senses
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Sense 1 Verb
to wave Core ActionsTheme

To move one's hand or an object back and forth in order to signal or greet someone.

vi Đứa trẻ vẫy tay chào mọi người.

en The child waved his hand to greet everyone.

Parts
𢭶
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
𢭶
Candidates by syllable
vẫy 𢭶
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
vảy / váy / vầy / vấy …
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Easily confused

Same spelling, different tone
Starts with this word

vẫy tay/vẫy gọi

Use
vùng vẫy
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Words containing this

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