sõi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "soi"

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [sɔj˦ˀ˥]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂɔj˧˨] ~ [sɔj˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʂɔj˨˩˦] ~ [sɔj˨˩˦]

Adverb

sõi • (磊, 𡂳)

  1. (of one's ability to use a language) fluent; smooth
    Synonym: rành rọt
    Cả làng em nói ngọng, mỗi mình em nói sõi. ― My entire village speaks badly, I alone speak fluently.
    đọc sõi tiếng Anh ― to read English texts smoothly

Adjective

sõi • (磊, 𡂳)

  1. (dated) healthy and sharp in the old age
    Ông già rồi mà còn sõi.
    He is old but healthy.
  2. (dated) cured completely from an illness
    Bữa nay ông cụ ấy đã sõi.
    He was completely cured.
  3. to be good at something
    sõi tiếng Anh ― to be good at English
    sõi việc, sõi nghề ― to be good at a task, a job
    sõi nấu nướng ― to be good at cooking
  4. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (obsolete) having a specialty

Derived terms

  • sành sõi

References

  • J[ean] F[rançois] M[arie] Génibrel (1898) “sõi”, in Dictionnaire annamite-français [Traditional Han: 大越國音漢字法釋集成] (in French), 2nd edition, Saigon: Imprimerie de la Mission à Tân-Dinh, page 699, column 2
  • Lê Văn Đức et al., editors (1970), “sõi”, in Việt-Nam tự-điển (in Vietnamese), volume Quyển hạ (M – X), Saigon: Nhà sách Khai-Trí; reproduced by Chunom.net
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