hao
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- noun
- This young man, Sun Hao.
Examples
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Ni Hao.
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Then, on January 18, 1989, Nguyen Van Hao made a key discovery: in the floor of the fourth cave, he found a premolar of Homo.
Academic text (1991) -
It earned one of its Presidential Unit Citations for actions in Bien Hao, Nov '65.
Blog text (18) -
A hao length, that is, 1/3 decimillimeter, is used to mark off an inch; a fen length, 1/3 centimeter, to mark off a foot; and an inch to mark off ten feet; increasing thus with every multiple, so that when a large building is drawn, everything is to scale and there are never even slight discrepancies.
Academic text (2002) -
A woman villager holding a small rock yells at a South Vietnamese military policeman on Feb. 10, 1975, during a confrontation near Hoa Hao in the Western Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
Blog text (27) -
In Vietnam, the price of the meal was 50 hao, which was affordable for most locals.
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She paid 70 hao for the traditional dessert at the local market.
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The currency exchange rate shows that one dollar is approximately 2,300 hao.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hao comes from a Chinese word hao that meant 'small' and was used for small money long ago. So a hao is a small coin and is one tenth of a Vietnamese dong, like a 'cent' is to a dollar.