Mẹo

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɛw˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɛw˨˩ʔ]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mɛw˨˩˨]
• Homophone: mẹo

Mẹo

1. (in Laos) Miao or Hmong, an Asian ethnic group whose homeland is in the mountainous regions around Guizhou, southern China, and northern Vietnam and Laos.

• H'Mông; Hơ Mông
• Mông
• Mèo

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.

Mẹo

1. Rare form of Mão.