khá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kha"

Khiamniungan Naga

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰa⁵⁵/

Verb

khá

  1. (Patsho) bury(Put or hide underground)

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (can; able; suitable; good, SV: khả).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [xaː˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kʰaː˨˩˦] ~ [xaː˨˩˦]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kʰaː˦˥] ~ [xaː˦˥]
  • Audio (Saigon):(file)

Adjective

khá (diminutive reduplication kha khá)

  1. fairly/decently competent; fine; OK
  2. (education, of a student or their achievements) "decent", below xuất sắc (excellent) and giỏi (good), above trung bình (average), yếu (poor) and kém (terrible)
    tốt nghiệp loại kháto graduate cum laude

Derived terms

Adverb

khá

  1. fairly competently
  2. quite; rather; fairly