ร้าน ตัด ผม
“ร้าน ตัด ผม” (ран тат пхом) — barbershop in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "shop of cutting-hair": raan, the shop, you know from food. Inside the phom is hair, though by itself the word means "I". In a live sentence: “ร้าน ตัด ผม อยู่ ใกล้ บ้าน” — The barbershop is close. Written with the characters ร, ้, า, น, ต, ด, ผ, ม. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | ร้าน ตัด ผม |
| Read in Latin letters | ран тат пхом |
| Translation | barbershop |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "shop of cutting-hair": raan, the shop, you know from food. Inside the phom is hair, though by itself the word means "I"
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.
- ร้าน ตัด ผม อยู่ ใกล้ บ้านран тат пхом ю клай банThe barbershop is close
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 “barbershop” in Thai?
«ร้าน ตัด ผม», read “ран тат пхом”. In a live sentence: “ร้าน ตัด ผม อยู่ ใกล้ บ้าน” — The barbershop is close. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ร, ้, า, น, ต, ด, ผ, ม.
How is “ร้าน ตัด ผม” written in Latin letters?
ран тат пхом. 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 "shop of cutting-hair": raan, the shop, you know from food. Inside the phom is hair, though by itself the word means "I". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.