ช่อ
“ช่อ” (чо) — a bunch; a cluster in Thai. Noun, level A1. One word for a bouquet, a cluster and a bunch: flowers, grapes and herbs at the market are counted alike. You saw it in "bouquet". In a live sentence: “ซื้อ ผัก หนึ่ง ช่อ” — Buy a bunch of herbs. Written with the characters ช, ่, อ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ช่อ |
| Read in Latin letters | чо |
| Translation | a bunch; a cluster |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
One word for a bouquet, a cluster and a bunch: flowers, grapes and herbs at the market are counted alike. You saw it in "bouquet"
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ซื้อ ผัก หนึ่ง ช่อсы пхак нынг чоBuy a bunch of herbs
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “a bunch; a cluster” in Thai?
«ช่อ», read “чо”. In a live sentence: “ซื้อ ผัก หนึ่ง ช่อ” — Buy a bunch of herbs. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ช, ่, อ.
How is “ช่อ” written in Latin letters?
чо. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
One word for a bouquet, a cluster and a bunch: flowers, grapes and herbs at the market are counted alike. You saw it in "bouquet". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.