Where does “xấu hoắc” come from?

xấu hoắc (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese xấu, from Chinese 醜.

xấu hoắc (Vietnamese): very ugly

Definitions

  1. very ugly

Ancestry of “xấu hoắc”, step by step

xấu hoắc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese xấu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesexấuugly; hideous; bad; of low quality; bad; devious
2Chinese醜—

via Vietnamese hoắc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesehoắcvery; excessively
Every word from Chinese 醜 →Every word from Vietnamese xấu →