canh

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [kajŋ̟˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [kajŋ̟˦]

canh

1. full; satiated

   Synonym: câư

   pảng canh ― full stomach

Borrowed from Vietnamese canh.

canh (Nôm form 更)

1. guard
2. one of the five two-hour periods at night

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[2] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kajŋ̟˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɛɲ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kan˧˧]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 羹.

canh

1. vegetable soup
2. (uncommon) broth (water in which food has been boiled)

canh

1. (transitive) to simmer liquid until it is thick enough.

   canh thuốc ― simmer traditional medicine

   canh mật ― simmer honey

• cái (“solid food in broth”)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 經.

canh

1. (obsolete, weaving) warp (the threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric)

   Antonym: chỉ (“weft; woof”)

   canh tơ chỉ vải ― silk warp and cotton weft

2. (obsolete) synonym of kinh (“Chinese classic; sacred text of a certain religion”)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 更.

canh

1. to watch, to guard

canh

1. (historical) a unit of time equal to one-fifth of the period from sunset to sunrise

   Coordinate term: khắc

   • c. 1741–1798, Nguyễn Gia Thiều, 宮怨吟曲 [Cung oán ngâm khúc]‎^[3], lines 225–226:

     Ngày sáu khắc tin mong nhạn vắng,
     Đêm năm canh tiếng lắng chuông rền.

     The whole day went with no news,
     The whole night saw no sound but the bell, ringing slowly but loudly.