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xúi hẻo

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unlucky; unfortunate
Adjective
unlucky; unfortunate

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Adjective
unlucky; unfortunate Properties & StatesTheme

Unlucky describes a situation of having bad fortune or experiencing a series of unfortunate events.

vi Thật xúi hẻo khi xe bị hỏng giữa đường.

en It is very unlucky that the car broke down in the middle of the road.

Parts
xúi / hẻo / Borrowed from Cantonese …
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OriginBorrowed from Cantonese

Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
驅曉
Candidates by syllable
xúi 驅 hẻo 曉
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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