dấu sắc

Vietnamese

Etymology

dấu (diacritic) +‎ sắc (from the fact that the word sắc has the tone written with an acute accent)

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zəw˧˦ sak̚˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [jəw˨˩˦ ʂak̚˦˧˥] ~ [jəw˨˩˦ sak̚˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [jəw˦˥ ʂak̚˦˥] ~ [jəw˦˥ sak̚˦˥]

Noun

dấu sắc

  1. (linguistics) acute accent
  2. (linguistics) sắc tone, rising tone