liêu xiêu

Vietnamese

Etymology

l- reduplication of xiêu (“to slope”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [liəw˧˧ siəw˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [liw˧˧ siw˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [liw˧˧ siw˧˧]

Adjective

liêu xiêu

  1. (usually colloquial, of a person) unbalanced
  2. (literary, of a place) vulnerable
    Những căn nhà liêu xiêu kia liệu có trụ nổi gió giông không vẫn là câu hỏi mà chúng tôi còn đau đáu.
    It's those so-called stable shelters that've always been driving us to fathom whether the dwellers would survive a storm or not.
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