Mẹo – Wiktionary
See also: meo, méo, meó, mèo, Mèo
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me’o
Vietnamese
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Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
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Mẹo
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in Laos
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Miao or Hmong, an Asian ethnic group whose homeland is in the mountainous regions around Guizhou, southern China, and northern Vietnam and Laos.
Synonyms
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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
- Mão
Rare form of