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How to say Sri Thanonchai (folk trickster)
in Thai
ศรีธนญชัย
sǐi-tá-non-chai
Sri Thanonchai (folk trickster)
sǐi risingtá highnon midchai mid
A clever rogue who wins by twisting words. Calling someone ศรีธนญชัย means they bend rules on a technicality.
- Part of speech
- noun
In a sentence
- อย่าทำตัวเป็นศรีธนญชัยyàa tam dtua bpen sǐi-tá-non-chaiDon't play word games like Sri Thanonchai.
The culture behind it
CULTURE
Classics in everyday speech
From the same situation: Literature and classics
- วรรณคดีclassical literature, the classics
- วรรณกรรมliterature, literary works (any period)
- ร้อยแก้วprose
- ร้อยกรองverse, poetry
- กวีpoet
- บทกวีpoem
- กลอนklon (the commonest Thai verse form)
- โคลงkhlong (verse form with tone-mark rules)
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