Kinh Thư

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

(obsolete) Kinh Thơ

Etymology

kinh +‎ Thư, calque of Chinese 書經 / 书经 (Thư kinh), following the head-initial structure of Vietnamese, instead of head-final in the original language.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kïŋ˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]

Proper noun

Kinh Thư • (經書)

(literature) the Book of Documents (a collection of documents and speeches alleged to have been written by rulers and officials of the early Zhou Dynasty and before)
Synonym: Thượng Thư

Coordinate terms

Tứ thư Ngũ kinh (四書五經, “Four Books and Five Classics”)

Tứ thư (四書, “Four Books”)

Đại Học (大學, “Great Learning”)
Trung Dung (中庸, “Doctrine of the Mean”)
Luận Ngữ (論語, “Analects”)
Mạnh Tử (孟子, “Mencius”)

Ngũ kinh (五經, “Five Classics”)

Kinh Thi (經詩, “Classic of Poetry”)
Kinh Thư (經書, “Book of Documents”)
Kinh Lễ (經禮, “Book of Rites”)
Kinh Dịch (經易, “I Ching”)
Kinh Xuân Thu (經春秋, “Spring and Autumn Annals”)