Tiếng Việt · Online slang 15

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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.

thánh soi

The saint of scrutiny — the commenter who finds the typo, the continuity error, the ex's like, the pixel out of place.

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thả care

To drop the Facebook "care" react (the hugging heart) — a one-tap gesture of sympathy, sincere or performative.

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thả haha

To hit the "haha" react — sometimes real laughter, often the internet's driest form of mockery; context decides which.

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tks

Borrowed “thanks” — thank you, keyboard-sized.

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trc

Texting shortcut for “trước” — before / first. “đi trc nha” = heading out first.

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trẻ trâu

An immature, attention-seeking person (originally a young teen) who acts loud, reckless, or edgy, especially online.

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tấu hề

Clowning for the crowd — deliberately (or obliviously) turning yourself into the comedy act of the moment.

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tổng tài

The domineering CEO archetype from C-drama and web novels — impossibly rich, cold to everyone, soft for exactly one person; used teasingly for bossy boyfriends and alpha posturing.

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tới công chuyện

“Now it’s on” — trouble (or serious business) has officially arrived; also “going all out”.

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thánh drama

The saint of drama — either glued to every online feud, or somehow the source of them; both readings apply.

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thánh lươn

The saint of slipperiness — "lươn" (eel) is dodging and deflecting; this one slides out of blame, questions, and commitments unscathed.

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thả phẫn nộ

To drop the "angry" react — one tap of public outrage, the crowd's thermometer on posts about injustice or nonsense.

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tml

A crude three-letter jab — teencode initialism of «thằng mặt l**», thrown at men as an insult or, between close friends, as rough-edged banter; strictly keyboard territory.

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trap boy

In Vietnamese youth slang: a heartbreaker — a boy who baits affection he never intends to return; the romance kind of trap, not the music kind.

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tức á

A chat-sized puff of steam — "ugh, so annoying!" with the Southern particle "á" doing the pouting.

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