ตรา เข้า เมือง
“ตรา เข้า เมือง” (траа кхао мыанг) — entry stamp (in the passport) in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "seal of entering the country": traa is the stamp, a familiar word, and khao is to enter. It is placed right on the spot, with no papers. In a live sentence: “ตรา เข้า เมือง ใน พาสปอร์ต” — The stamp is in the passport. Written with the characters ต, ร, า, เ, ข, ้, า, เ, ม, ื, อ, ง.
In short
| Written in Thai | ตรา เข้า เมือง |
| Read in Latin letters | траа кхао мыанг |
| Translation | entry stamp (in the passport) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "seal of entering the country": traa is the stamp, a familiar word, and khao is to enter. It is placed right on the spot, with no papers
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.
- ตรา เข้า เมือง ใน พาสปอร์ตтраа кхао мыанг наи пааспоотThe stamp is in the passport
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 “entry stamp (in the passport)” in Thai?
«ตรา เข้า เมือง», read “траа кхао мыанг”. In a live sentence: “ตรา เข้า เมือง ใน พาสปอร์ต” — The stamp is in the passport. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ต, ร, า, เ, ข, ้, า, เ, ม, ื, อ, ง.
How is “ตรา เข้า เมือง” written in Latin letters?
траа кхао мыанг. 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 "seal of entering the country": traa is the stamp, a familiar word, and khao is to enter. It is placed right on the spot, with no papers. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.