Dictionary of Vietnamese Idioms, Proverbs and Folk Verses
This tool helps you search for and look up the text of Vietnamese idioms, proverbs and folk verses. All the data is extracted from the book "Từ Điển Thành Ngữ Tục Ngữ Ca Dao Việt Nam" (Dictionary of Vietnamese Idioms, Proverbs and Folk Verses) by the scholar Việt Chương (2004, complete in two volumes), and each entry is matched to the corresponding cropped and digitized image of the original page so you can compare them.
You can easily search for idioms, proverbs and folk verses and read their meanings by following the steps below:
Choose a category (such as Folk verse, Proverb, Idiom...) or type the phrase you are looking for directly into the search box.
Click a letter in the alphabet bar to quickly see the entries that begin with that letter.
Read the detailed explanation of each entry and compare it directly with the photo of the original book page on the right.
You can also search by the meaning of a phrase here.