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Title:	Midnight
Answer:	nửa đêm, giờ tí, canh ba

Hints:	1. 3 different ways of saying midnight in Vietnamese, commonly used together in an expression. 2. 1st: literally midnight, 2nd: the zodiac times (12 animals), 3rd: the 5 'canh' as in the guards used at night 3. 2nd: the first animal in the 12 animals for lunar years, 3rd: the middle of the 5 'canh'

Explanation:	- nửa đêm: middle of the night - giờ tí: the 'mouse' hour, 1st hour in the 12 hours cycle (similar to the 12 animals in lunar calendar) of a day (one ancient hour = 2 hours in present time) - canh ba: the middle of 5 'tro^'ng canh', each is 2 hours long, starting from 7 pm. So 'canh ba' is from 11 pm to 1 am.
Vietnamese > Popular Expressions > Time

Game Summary Statistics

Average Rating		4.6
# of votes		11
# of Garbage Votes		0
# of Garbage Votes by native speakers		0

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Guest

May 24, 2006

Instead of "nua dêm, gio tí, canh ba", in French we say "minuit"

Guest

Rating: 4

August 15, 2005

Guest

Rating: 5

April 3, 2005

very informative.
Instead of "nua dêm, gio tí, canh ba", in English we say "midnight"

Guest

Rating: 4

September 27, 2004

I am just learning Vietnamese and was surprised at how fun this game is. I had to buy all the clues and only had one leg left, but I won ----- thanks.

Guest

Rating: 3

July 29, 2004

Guest

Rating: 5

June 15, 2004

Thankyou for writing the phrases with correct diacritics in the explanation. Playing Vietnamese Hangman without diacritics is messy and confusing!
Instead of "nua dêm, gio tí, canh ba", in English we say "the witching hour"

Guest

Rating: 5

April 10, 2004

it was a good and challenging game.

Guest

Rating: 5

March 7, 2004

Instead of "nua dêm, gio tí, canh ba", in French we say "minuit"

Guest

Rating: 5

November 26, 2003

Guest

Rating: 5

April 18, 2003

Excellent. I had heard the expression but did not know what the canh referred to. Thanks for the explanation.

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