can trường

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • can tràng

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 肝腸, composed of 肝 (“liver”) and 腸 (“intestines”).

Like đoạn trường, the diphthongized trường is currently most common reading here for the morpheme 腸, instead of the monophthongal tràng as in đại tràng or manh tràng.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kaːn˧˧ t͡ɕɨəŋ˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kaːŋ˧˧ ʈɨəŋ˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kaːŋ˧˧ ʈɨəŋ˨˩]

Adjective

can trường

  1. (literary) brave and resilient
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