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- ê, e — nonstandard
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 欸
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 誒/诶
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㗒
- 《汉语拼音方案》 (Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) defines a standard pronunciation for each letter in Hanyu Pinyin with Zhuyin. ㄝ (/ɛ/) typically only occurs in syllables with an initial glide (e.g. ㄧㄝ (-ie /i̯ɛ/)), where it is romanized as e. When it occurs in syllables without an initial glide, however, it is romanized as ê in order to distinguish it from ㄜ (-e /ɤ/). Such instances are rare, and are only found in interjections or neologisms.
ế (upper case Ế)
- (of goods, shop, or restaurant) unmarketable; unsalable; unable to find customers; sluggish
- (colloquial, of people) past the usual age for marriage but still unmarried or single; on the shelf
- ế chồng ― (of a woman) to be on the shelf
- 2017 Dec, Bạn muốn hẹn hò (Tập 338)
cũng có thể đó là lý do mà em ế tới giờ
- Maybe that's the reason I'm still single
2017 Dec, “Chăm đi đám cưới chính là cách giúp nhiều bạn trẻ thoát ế thành công”, in Trí Thức Trẻ[1]:
Nhiều bạn trẻ thường rỉ tai nhau rằng muốn nhanh thoát ế, thì cứ siêng đi đám cưới, tiệc tùng vào.
- Many young people often tell each other that the way to quickly say goodbye to singledom is to keep going to weddings and parties.