khá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kha"

Khiamniungan Naga

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰa⁵⁵/

Verb

khá

  1. (Patsho) bury(Put or hide underground)

Vietnamese

Etymology

    Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 可 (“can; able; suitable; good”, SV: khả).

    Pronunciation

    • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [xaː˧˦]
    • (Huế) IPA(key): [kʰaː˨˩˦]
    • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kʰaː˦˥]
    • Audio (Saigon):(file)

    Adjective

    khá (diminutive reduplication kha khá)

    1. fairly/decently competent; fine; OK
    2. (education, of a student or their achievements) "decent", below xuất sắc (“excellent”) and giỏi (“good”), above trung bình (“average”), yếu (“poor”) and kém (“terrible”)
      tốt nghiệp loại khá ― to graduate cum laude

    Derived terms

    Adverb

    khá

    1. fairly competently
    2. quite; rather; fairly
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