thính

Noun

 * 1) powdered grilled rice
 * 2) roasted bran used as bait for fish or shrimp
 * 3)  “bait” (for attracting someone); flirtation; romantic advances

Etymology 2
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Its Middle Chinese ancestor "to listen" would have yielded regularly SV reflex **thinh; this attested reflex, with sắc-tone (which suggests a Middle Chinese ancestor with departing tone & unvoiced initial), possibly has arisen from confusion with  "to administer, to adjudicate", which had departing tone.

Adjective

 * 1) keen; sharp