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Etymology 1
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Noun
金甌
- (literary) golden chalice
- (literary, figurative) the country; the nation
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Vietnamese, probably a phono-semantic matching of Vietnamese Cà Mau, likely via Cantonese.
Proper noun
金甌
- (~省) Cà Mau (a province of Vietnam)
- (~市) Cà Mau (a city in Vietnam)
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Vietnamese
Noun
金甌: Hán Việt readings: kim âu[1]
- chữ Hán form of kim âu (“gold cup, the nation, stability”).
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