sơ khai

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Vietnamese

 Trái Đất sơ khai on Vietnamese Wikipedia
 Tế bào sơ khai on Vietnamese Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

khai

  1. initial; primordial; original; early
    Trái Đất sơ khaiPrimordial Earth
    Tế bào sơ khaiThe Protocell (the original cell)

Noun

(classifier tờ, bài) khai

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