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xà lim

Pronunciation Northern /sa̤ː˨˩ lim˧˧/ Central /saː˧˧ lim˧˥/ Southern /saː˨˩ lim˧˧/
prison cell
Noun
prison cell
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Sense 1 Noun
prison cell Discourse & LogicTheme

A small and narrow room in a prison that is used to hold individual prisoners separately.

vi Người tù bị giam trong một xà lim chật hẹp.

en The prisoner was held in a narrow cell.

Form
Chinese characters / chữ Nôm / syllables
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
蛇瞼
Candidates by syllable
xà 蛇（柁 / 𤥭） lim 瞼（𣜰）
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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