Tiếng Việt · Online slang 8

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Where will you be? Anywhere Hà Nội & the North Huế / Đà Nẵng & the Center Sài Gòn & the South Online slang Bắc ↔ Nam words

Internet-culture Vietnamese — forum, gaming, and social-media expressions.

nc

Texting shortcut for “nói chuyện” (to chat) — or “nước” (water); context decides.

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ng

Texting shortcut for “người” — person.

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ngáo giá

Price-delusional — asking or expecting a price wildly detached from reality, as if high on the number itself; born in the property market and now applied to any overpriced listing.

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nhân vật chính

Main-character status — living (or posing) like the story revolves around you; admiring or ironic depending on who is filming.

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nx

Texting shortcut for “nữa” — more / also. “j nx” = what else?

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ngáo chứng

Stock-crazed — so deep in the market that every conversation, chart and dream is about tickers; the finance cousin of the «ngáo X» family.

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người tối cổ

Someone "living in the stone age" of the internet — the last to hear every meme and trend; teased, not insulted.

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nữ doanh nhân thành đạt

Ironic "successful businesswoman" — narrating mundane hustle (selling one lipstick, closing one shopee order) in boardroom grandeur.

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