bãi chợ

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 罷市 (“to protest by suspending business”, SV: bãi thị).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓaːj˦ˀ˥ t͡ɕəː˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓaːj˧˨ t͡ɕəː˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓaːj˨˩˦ cəː˨˩˨]

Verb

bãi chợ

  1. (rare) to market strike; to protest by suspending market trading; to have a vendor strike
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