How do you say “illicit” in Vietnamese?

“Illicit” in Vietnamese is lậu (contraband).

Vietnamese words for “illicit”

• lậuListenadjective
  Hanoi [ləw˧˨ʔ] · Saigon [ləw˨˩˨]lậu heavy

  contraband; illicit; under the table

Related Vietnamese words

• chuiListenadjective

  to duck under; to move headlong; to pass through hunched over

• trái phépListenadjective

  illegal as in unauthorized

Translations matched from English Wiktionary (translation tables and Vietnamese entries, via kaikki.org; CC BY-SA 4.0) and the NgonNgu English–Vietnamese dictionary, reviewed and edited; examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). The Listen button uses your browser's Vietnamese voice.