phân giải

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese, Japanese 分解 (bunkai, literally to break down into parts). The sense of "reasoning" is probably from a contraction of phân tích (to analyze; to explain) + giải thích (to explain).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [fən˧˧ zaːj˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [fəŋ˧˧ jaːj˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [fəŋ˧˧ jaːj˨˩˦]
  • Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

Verb

phân giải

  1. (biochemistry) to decompose, resolve or break down
  2. to reason or explain

See also