Mẹo – Wiktionary

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me’o

Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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Proper noun

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Mẹo

1. (

   in Laos

   )

   Miao or Hmong, an Asian ethnic group whose homeland is in the mountainous regions around Guizhou, southern China, and northern Vietnam and Laos.

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Etymology 2

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 卯 (SV: Mão). Some dictionaries (such as Thiều Chửu’s) consider it as Sino-Vietnamese, but the nặng tone in Mẹo is unlikely to be developed from the Middle Chinese rising tone and eo is unlikely to be a Sino-Vietnamese rhyme, compared to the likely tone and rhyme in Mão. See also Tí, Thìn, Ngọ, Mùi.

Proper noun

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Mẹo

1. Mão

   Rare form of