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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) bamboo wife

Usage notes

 * This term is only used as a modern stand-in for its Chinese and Sino-Xenic equivalents in recent research papers and translations; it was never in use in actual Vietnamese vernacular texts in history. There is a Chinese poem by titled 竹奴銘, where the term  apparently referred to the bamboo wife. Since this is a poem in Chinese, it is not clear if the Sino-Vietnamese reading of the same term was used in Vietnamese.