chữ mềm

Vietnamese

Etymology

chữ (“character”) +‎ mềm (“soft”). Coined as both a counterpart to chữ cứng (“katakana, "hard characters"”) and because hiragana look "softer" since they derived from cursive phonograms.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ mem˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɨ˧˨ mem˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [cɨ˨˩˦ mem˨˩]

Noun

chữ mềm

  1. hiragana

See also

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