phần tử

See also: phân tử and phân từ

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 分子, composed of 分 (“portion”) and 子 (“child; small thing”), from Japanese 分子 (bunshi), from Middle Chinese 分子 (bjunH tsiX, “part; division; component; member”, literally “portion child”).

燕周之分子也 [Vietnamese Literary Sinitic, trad.]
From: Commentary of Guliang, circa 206 BCE– 9 CE
Yan is a part of Zhou

The tone is slightly irregular, and a regular form would be *phận tử. For the tone difference between phần tử and phân tử, see phần. Doublet of phân tử. Cognate with Mandarin 分子 (fènzǐ) and Cantonese 分子 (fan6 zi2).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [fən˨˩ tɨ˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [fəŋ˦˩ tɨ˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [fəŋ˨˩ tɨ˨˩˦]

Noun

phần tử

  1. (set theory) an element
    tập hợp A có 2 phần tử
    there are 2 elements in set A
  2. (politics, chiefly in compounds) an element
    phần tử cực đoan
    radical elements

See also

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