can trường

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• can tràng

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 肝腸, composed of 肝 (“liver”) and 腸 (“intestines”).

Like đoạn trường, the diphthongized trường is currently most common reading here for the morpheme 腸, instead of the monophthongal tràng as in đại tràng or manh tràng.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaːn˧˧ t͡ɕɨəŋ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaːŋ˧˧ ʈɨəŋ˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaːŋ˧˧ ʈɨəŋ˨˩]

Adjective

can trường

1. (literary) brave and resilient