ของ เสีย
“ของ เสีย” (кхонг сия) — waste; spoiled goods in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "thing spoiled": production waste and expired food. Trash in the bin is one word; this is what the factory throws out. In a live sentence: “ของ เสีย จาก โรง งาน ต้อง ทิ้ง ให้ ถูก ที่” — Factory waste must be disposed of in the right place. Written with the characters ข, อ, ง, เ, ส, ี, ย. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ของ เสีย |
| Read in Latin letters | кхонг сия |
| Translation | waste; spoiled goods |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "thing spoiled": production waste and expired food. Trash in the bin is one word; this is what the factory throws out
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.
- ของ เสีย จาก โรง งาน ต้อง ทิ้ง ให้ ถูก ที่кхонг сия джак ронг нган тонг тхинг хай тхуук тиFactory waste must be disposed of in the right place
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 “waste; spoiled goods” in Thai?
«ของ เสีย», read “кхонг сия”. In a live sentence: “ของ เสีย จาก โรง งาน ต้อง ทิ้ง ให้ ถูก ที่” — Factory waste must be disposed of in the right place. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ข, อ, ง, เ, ส, ี, ย.
How is “ของ เสีย” written in Latin letters?
кхонг сия. 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?
Literally "thing spoiled": production waste and expired food. Trash in the bin is one word; this is what the factory throws out. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.