từ vựng

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 詞彙 (SV: từ vị). The character 彙 (vị) was confused with the character 暈 (vận), and the character 暈 (vận) then became "vựng" through the coda and vowel shift (-n > -ŋ characteristic of Southern Vietnamese).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tɨ˨˩ vɨŋ˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tɨ˦˩ vɨŋ˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tɨ˨˩ vɨŋ˨˩˨] ~ [tɨ˨˩ jɨŋ˨˩˨]

Noun

từ vựng

  1. (also attributive) vocabulary
    đơn vị từ vựng ― lexical unit
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