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yết kiêu

Pronunciation Northern /iət˧˥ kiəw˧˧/ Central /iə̰k˩˧ kiəw˧˥/ Southern /iək˧˥ kiəw˧˧/
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retainer of Trần Hưng Đạo
Proper noun
retainer of Trần Hưng Đạo

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Proper noun
retainer of Trần Hưng Đạo

A retainer general of Trần Hưng Đạo skilled in swimming and diving, who according to anecdotes and history secretly dove underwater to bore holes into the boats of the Yuan invaders, and once captured, still managed to escape by leaping into the water.

vi Yết Kiêu là tên của một địa danh.

en Yết Kiêu is the name of a place.

Parts
yết / kiêu / 揭驕
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
揭驕
Candidates by syllable
yết 揭(謁) kiêu 驕(澆)
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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yết kiến / yết hầu / yết thị / niêm yết …
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