chỉ nam
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Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 指南 (“guide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
- (literary, rare) a guide (book)
- Xe chỉ nam ― The Guiding Chariot (literally, “South-pointing chariot”)
- Friedrich Engels (1979) [1886 November 29] Engels an Friedrich Adolph Sorge in Hoboken (Marx-Engels-Werke) (in German), volume 36, page 578; Vietnamese translation from C. Mác và Ph. Ăng-ghen, volume 36, 1999, page 771; English translation from Marx/Engels Collected Works, volume 47, 1995, page 532
- Đối với họ [người Đức] [lý luận] đó là một giáo điều chứ không phải chỉ nam cho hành động.
- To them it is a credo, not a guide to action.