sơ khai

Vietnamese

Etymology

    Sino-Vietnamese word from 初 (“beginning”) and 開 (“to start; to open”), calque of Chinese 開初 / 开初 (khai sơ, “originally; early”).

    Pronunciation

    • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [səː˧˧ xaːj˧˧]
    • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂəː˧˧ kʰaːj˧˧] ~ [səː˧˧ kʰaːj˧˧]
    • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʂəː˧˧ kʰaːj˧˧] ~ [səː˧˧ kʰaːj˧˧]

    Adjective

    sơ khai

    1. initial; primordial; original; early
      Trái Đất sơ khai ― Primordial Earth
      Tế bào sơ khai ― The Protocell (the original cell)

    Noun

    (classifier tờ, bài) sơ khai

    1. (figurative) a stub (as an early, incomplete composition)
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