hoáy

See also: hoay

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Adjective

hoáy • (渨, ⿰氵卦, 畏)

  1. sunken, hollow
    Synonyms: hẳm, hoắm
    đôi mắt trũng hoáy ― deeply sunken eyes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Combining form

hoáy

  1. construed with hí hoáy (“to fiddle with”)

References

  • “hoáy”, in Soha Tra Từ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Vietnam Communications Corporation. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.
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