xào

See also: xáo, xảo, xạo, and xa'o

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 炒 (“stir fry”, SV: sao).

Pronunciation

Verb

xào • (𤇤)

  1. (cooking) to stir fry
    phở xào ― stir-fried pho
  2. to rehash
    Cái bọn này cứ xào đi xào lại kịch bản hoài.
    They just keep rehashing the script over and over again.
  3. (card games) to shuffle
    Để tao xào bài cho chắc ăn. ― Let me shuffle the cards just to be sure.

Derived terms

  • chiên xào
  • xào nấu

See also

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