triệu tỷ bị
VI
A trillion dong (Vietnamese currency), typically used to refer to large-scale corruption or embezzlement cases involving this massive amount of state money
Vụ án triệu tỷ bị đã gây chấn động dư luận cả nước năm ngoái.
The trillion dong corruption case shocked public opinion across the country last year.
Etymology
This phrase is a modern Vietnamese colloquial combination: "triệu tỷ" means one trillion (of Vietnamese dong), and "bị" is short for "tham nhũng" (corruption). It became widely used in Vietnamese media in the 2010s to describe high-value corruption scandals.
Memory Aid
Break it down: "triệu tỷ" = 1,000,000,000,000 VND, "bị" starts the common word for corruption in Vietnamese, so you can connect the large sum to the corrupt act directly.
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