vận mệnh hiển nhiên

Vietnamese

Etymology

vận mệnh (“destiny, fate”) +‎ hiển nhiên (“obvious, apparent”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vən˧˨ʔ məjŋ̟˧˨ʔ hiən˧˩ ɲiən˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [vəŋ˨˩ʔ men˨˩ʔ hiəŋ˧˨ ɲiəŋ˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [vəŋ˨˩˨ məːn˨˩˨ hiəŋ˨˩˦ ɲiəŋ˧˧] ~ [jəŋ˨˩˨ məːn˨˩˨ hiəŋ˨˩˦ ɲiəŋ˧˧]

Noun

vận mệnh hiển nhiên

  1. (historical) the manifest destiny (cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America)
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