bia

bia
noun
  1. beer
  2. tombstone; gravestone; stele; monument
  3. (by extension) target (for shooting); bullseye

biểu ngữ

biểu ngữ
noun
  1. banner; slogan

biểu đồ

biểu đồ
noun
  1. a diagram (graph or chart)

bài

bài
noun
  1. card, playing card, card game
  2. tag, tablet
  3. lesson
  4. exercise, paper, task, theme

classifier
  1. used for compositions like songs, drawings, poems, essays, etc.

bánh

bánh
noun
  1. a broad, vaguely defined term, mostly used by collocation or intuition, for foods that come in a specific shape or solid (a flat piece, a block, a ball, a loaf, etc.) and that are often made from grain or legume flour or plain rice, by size often larger than and contrasted with what is known as kẹo (“candy”)
  2. (cooking) certain types of noodles in their raw forms
  3. a cake (a block of any of various dense materials)
  4. a wheel

romanization
  1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 鍠 (“weapon/trident/sound of drums/bells”)
  2. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 碰/掽 (“collide/meet/offend”)
  3. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 庳 (“low/short”)
  4. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 䗒 (“clam”)
  5. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 蟔 (“caterpillar”)
  6. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 蓻
  7. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 榵

bánh Thánh

bánh Thánh
noun
  1. (Roman Catholicism) communion wafer

bánh lễ

bánh lễ
noun
  1. (Roman Catholicism) communion wafer

báo tường

báo tường
noun
  1. wall newspaper

bìa

bìa
noun
  1. book cover
  2. cardboard
  3. frame; border; edge

bình phong

bình phong
noun
  1. a screen; blind
  2. a folding screen; room divider

bích chương

bích chương
noun
  1. a poster

bưu thiếp

bưu thiếp
noun
  1. postcard

bạt

bạt
noun
  1. tarpaulin; tarp; hootch
  2. (money) baht
  3. (literature) epilogue

bản đồ

bản đồ
noun
  1. map

bảng

bảng
noun
  1. a board such as a blackboard or whiteboard
  2. a table (grid of data in rows and columns)
  3. (numismatics) a pound

bảng chọn

bảng chọn
noun
  1. (computing, gaming) menu (list from which the user may select an operation to be performed)

bằng khen

bằng khen
noun
  1. certificate of merit; certificate awarded by authorities to acknowledge some achievement by a person or an organization

bằng lái

bằng lái
noun
  1. driver's license

bằng lái xe

bằng lái xe
noun
  1. driver’s license

chiếu

chiếu
noun
  1. a sown mat made of straw strands or bamboo pieces
  2. seat; rank
  3. (history) imperial order

verb
  1. to emit light onto a surface; to light up, to shine, to project onto, etc.
  2. (by extension) to display a movie in a theater, by projection or otherwise
  3. (by extension, geometry) to project
  4. (chess, xiangqi) to check

cót

cót
noun
  1. winding key
  2. (Northern Vietnam) a kind of sheet woven from bamboos

giại

giại
noun
  1. (bamboo) screen placed at the porch
  2. cemetery ground

giấy than

giấy than
noun
  1. carbon paper

gương

gương
noun
  1. a mirror (smooth reflecting surface)
  2. (tấm ~) an example; a role model
  3. (Central Vietnam) Synonym of kính (“eyeglasses”)

hoành phi

hoành phi
noun
  1. horizontal lacquered board engraved with Chinese characters (usually hung over a door and flanked by two vertical scrolls forming a couplet)

huy chương

huy chương
noun
  1. a medal

hình

hình
noun
  1. image
  2. a figure or a silhouette
  3. (Southern Vietnam) a photo; a picture
  4. (geometry) a shape
  5. Clipping of hình học (“geometry”).

khiên

khiên
noun
  1. shield

liếp

liếp
noun
  1. protective panel made of woven bamboo

lá chắn

lá chắn
noun
  1. a shield
  2. (figuratively) a protector, person who protect

lát

lát
noun
  1. a kind of wood used to make furniture
  2. a slice
  3. moment; short while

verb
  1. to slice
  2. (dialectal) Synonym of nhát (“to stab”)
  3. to cover (floor with tiles); to pave (road)

lưng

lưng
noun
  1. back (the back of people, animals, or objects)

lưới

lưới
noun
  1. a (fishing) net

lụa

lụa
noun
  1. silk fabric
  2. unripened banana leaf or betel palm husk, used as a wrap in Vietnamese cuisine to impart flavor to various chả and bánh

adj
  1. silky, soft

mặt

mặt
noun
  1. face (front part of head)
  2. face (facial expression)
  3. face (public image)
  4. face (geometry: bounding surface of a polyhedron)
  5. face (surface, especially a front or outer one)
  6. aspect; dimension

adj
  1. (archaic) right (of direction)

nệm

nệm
noun
  1. mattress

ra

ra
verb
  1. to go out, to leave
  2. (by extension) to go northwards in Vietnam
  3. to be released, to be published, to be out, to come out
  4. to become, to turn into

noun
  1. bed sheet

sáo

sáo
noun
  1. blackbird
  2. starling
  3. myna
  4. bamboo flute
  5. bamboo screen

adj
  1. clichéd; tired

séc

séc
noun
  1. a cheque; check (a kind of bank order document)

thuẫn

thuẫn
noun
  1. (weaponry, dated or archaic) shield

thảm

thảm
noun
  1. carpet, rug (floor covering)
  2. carpet, bed (surface or cover)

verb
  1. to carpet, to blanket, to cover

adj
  1. tragic

tấm

tấm
noun
  1. broken or fractured rice grains

classifier
  1. Used for large flat things, such as pieces of cloth (vải), planks (ván), boards (gỗ), pictures (ảnh, hình), mirrors (gương), etc.
  2. (literary) Used for small or seemingly insignificant things that are deemed valuable or worth cherishing.

ván

ván
noun
  1. a plank (long, broad and thick piece of timber)
  2. (card games, board games) a game

ván ép

ván ép
noun
  1. a plank of plywood

vé

vé
noun
  1. ticket

vé số

vé số
noun
  1. lottery ticket

vảy

vảy
noun
  1. (anatomy) scales

đệm

đệm
noun
  1. mattress; cushion
  2. buffer

verb
  1. to place (under)
  2. to accompany

ảnh

ảnh
noun
  1. image; reflection
  2. (chiefly Northern Vietnam) photograph; picture

pron
  1. (Southern Vietnam) he; him (man of equal or slightly greater social status)

橫批

橫批
noun
  1. chữ Hán form of hoành phi (“horizontal lacquered board engraved with Chinese characters (usually hung over a door and flanked by two vertical scrolls forming a couplet)”).

軿

軿
noun
  1. wheel

餅

餅
noun
  1. Nôm form of bánh (“pastry, cake, bread, dumpling, noodle, wafer, or pudding”).

𨋣

𨋣
noun
  1. Nôm form of bánh (“wheel”).