cáo

noun

• Royal edict-like announcement
  • Nguyễn Trãi viết bài cáo bình Ngô: Nguyen Trai wrote the edict-like announcement about the defeat of the feudal Chinese invaders

• Fox
  • cáo bắt gà: foxes catch fowls
  • bọn thựcdân cáo già: the foxy colonialists
  • mèo già hoá cáo: at length the cat turns fox; no man is his craft's master first day; use makes mastery; practice makes perfect

verb

• To submit (to mandarin)

• To pretext, to invoke as excuse
  • cáo ốm không dự hội nghị