chao

• chan

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chão, from Latin planus (“flat”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃaʊ̯], [ˈt͡ʃaw]

chao m (plural chaos)

1. plain, plateau; ground. Alternative form of chan

• Chao

chao m (feminine singular chá, masculine plural chaos, feminine plural chás)

1. Alternative form of chan (“flat”)

• “chao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “chao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “chao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chao” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chan” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• chau

Borrowed from French tchao, German tschau, Italian ciao, Spanish chau (but only in the sense of "goodbye").

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃao/

chao

1. (neologism, often informal) goodbye

   Synonyms: adio, til rivido, til

   Antonyms: saluto, hola

chao

1. Nonstandard spelling of chāo.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cháo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chǎo.
4. Nonstandard spelling of chào.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃao/ [ˈt͡ʃa.o]
• Rhymes: -ao
• Syllabification: cha‧o

chao

1. Alternative form of chau

• “chao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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chao

1. Ki class inflected form of -ao.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [caːw˧˧]

From a form of Min Nan 醬 (SV: tương). Compare Thai เต้าเจี้ยว (dtâo-jîao), Lao ເຕົ້າຈ້ຽວ (taochiāu).

chao • (挍, 焯, 𤎙)

1. fermented bean curd

chao • (洲)

1. to glide (in the air)

• choa