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Double Stacked Words

Those are words with double-stacked characters in the middle. Dobule-stacked words are called dway3 bau2 | ဒွေးဘော် or more commonly pup hsin1 | ပါဌ်ဆင့် where pup | ပါဌ် means Pali word, and hsin1 | ဆင့် means to stack up.

However, not all the double-stacked words are Pali words. Examples:

yout-kha1-ma1 | ယောက္ခမ - father-in-law or mother-in-law
mate-tu2 | မိတ္တူ - duplicate; photocopy
tet-si2 | တက္ကစီ - taxi.

Usually, thut is omitted for the character on top. The character below must then be brought up to the same level and combine with whatever that follows.

For example, in "Bun2 Du1 La1" | ဗန္ဓုလ,
Ba1 Det Chite | +
Na1 thut | န် spells
Bun2 | ဗန်.

However, in double-stacked word, lower part of Na1 Ngeare2 | and thut on top are missing.

For the second syllable, bring
Da1 Out Chite | up and combine with ta1-choun3 ngin2 | to pronounce
"Du1 | ဓု.

This is followed by the third syllable La1 | character itself.

bun2-du1-la1 | ဗန္ဓုလ = ဗန် + ဓု + လ

The character Na1 Ngeare2 | as seen above, when double-stacked, gets its lower part cut off. This is true regardless of whether it is on top or below. It is possible to have words with double-stacked both on top and below. Examples:

The character Da1 Yin2 Gout | must be rotated 90 degree counter-clockwise when stacked under character the Na1 ji3 | to appear like ဏ္ဍ. Examples:

The character Hta1 win2 beare3 | must be rotated 90 degree clockwise when stacked under the character Na1 ji3 | to appear like ဏ္ဌ. Example:

ပုံသဏ္ဌာန် | pone2 dtha1-dun2 : shape and appearance.

It is possible to have Burmese words with more than one double-stacked characters in a sequence. For example, အတ္ထုပ္ပတ္တိ | ut-htoat pup-ti1 means biography.

The less common double-stacked words are those with on top and at the bottom. Example:

myit-zi1-ma1 | မဇ္ဈိမ - middle as in myit-zi1-ma1 ba1-de1 ba1-da2 | မဇ္ဈိမပဋိပဒါ - The Middle Way (Buddhism).

A class of double-stacked words are formed with a superscript င် | Nga1 thut that goes on top of characters. This symbol is called kin3 si3 | ကင်းစီး. Examples:

မင်္ဂလာ | min2-ga1-la2 - (something) auspicious.
မသင်္ကာ | ma1-thin2-ga2 - suspicious.
သင်္ဘော | thin3-bau3 - ship.
သင်္ချာ | thin2-cha2 - math.
အင်္ဂလိပ်စာ | in3-ga1-late sa2 - English Language.