Hanoi

See also: Hanói, Hanoï, and Hà Nội

English

Alternative forms

• Ha Noi, Hà Nội

Etymology

From Vietnamese Hà Nội, which is a Sino-Vietnamese word, 河內.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑːˈnɔɪ/, /hæˈnɔɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Proper noun

Hanoi

1. The capital city of Vietnam.
   • 1959 December, “Talking of Trains: Five trains to Hanoi”, in Trains Illustrated, page 579:

     If you have seventeen days and £168 to spare, can satisfy the Iron Curtain authorities of your bona fides and your taste runs to marathon rail travel, you can now board the "Night Ferry" at Victoria and ride across the whole of Europe and Asia to Hanoi, capital of North Viet-Nam, changing carriage only at Brussels, Berlin, Moscow and Pekin.

   • 1999, John McCain, Faith of My Fathers‎^[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285:

     YOUR SON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHEN SHOT DOWN IN HANOI BUT HAS MADE FINE RECOVERY AND NOW, ACCORDING THIS GROUP, LOOKS "QUITE WELL." HE HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE AND HAS STOOD UP MANFULLY AGAINST ALL EFFORTS TO PERSUADE HIM TO UTTER TRAITOROUS STATEMENTS.

2. (metonymically) the Vietnamese government.

Synonyms

• Tonkin

Derived terms

• Hanoian
• Tower of Hanoi

 

Translations

capital of Vietnam

• Afrikaans: Hanoi
• Albanian: Hanoi
• Amharic: ሀኖይ (hänoy)
• Arabic: هَانُوي f (hanūy), هَانُوي f (hanoy)
• Armenian: Հանոյ (Hanoy)
• Azerbaijani: Hanoy
• Belarusian: Хано́й m (Xanój)
• Bengali: হ্যানয় (hênoẏ)
• Bulgarian: Хано́й m (Hanój)
• Burmese: ဟာနွိုင်း (ha-nwuing:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 河內／河内 (yue) (ho⁴ noi⁶)

  Hokkien: 河內／河内 (Hô-lāi)

  Mandarin: 河內／河内 (zh) (Hénèi)

• Czech: Hanoj (cs) f
• Danish: Hanoi n
• Dutch: Hanoi (nl) n
• Esperanto: Hanojo (eo)
• Estonian: Hanoi (et)
• Finnish: Hanoi (fi)
• French: Hanoï (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰანოი (ka) (hanoi)
• German: Hanoi (de) n
• Greek: Ανόι (el) n (Anói)
• Hebrew: האנוי f
• Hindi: हनोई m (hanoī)
• Hungarian: Hanoi (hu)
• Icelandic: Hanoí
• Irish: Hanáí f
• Italian: Hanoi (it)
• Japanese: ハノイ (ja) (Hanoi)
• Kazakh: Ханой (Xanoi)
• Khmer: ហាណូយ (km) (haanouy)
• Korean: 하노이 (ko) (Hanoi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Hanoi

• Kyrgyz: Ханой (ky) (Hanoy)
• Lao: ຮ່າໂນຍ (hā nōi)
• Latvian: Hanoja f
• Lithuanian: Hanojus m
• Macedonian: Ханој m (Hanoj)
• Maltese: Ħanoj
• Marathi: हॅनोई n (hĕnoī), हानोई n (hānoī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ханой (Xanoj)

• Navajo: Hanóii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Hanoi n

  Nynorsk: Hanoi n

• Pashto: هانوى m (hānoy)
• Persian: هانوی (hânuy)
• Polish: Hanoi (pl) n
• Portuguese: Hanói f
• Romanian: Hanoi (ro)
• Russian: Хано́й (ru) m (Xanój)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ханој m

  Roman: Hanoj m

• Sinhalese: හැනෝයි (hænōyi)
• Slovak: Hanoj (sk) m
• Slovene: Hanoj m
• Spanish: Hanói (es) f
• Swahili: Hanoi
• Swedish: Hanoi (sv) n
• Tagalog: Hanoi
• Tajik: Ҳаной (Hanoy)
• Tamil: ஹனோய் (haṉōy)
• Tatar: Ханой (Xanoy)
• Thai: ฮานอย (th) (haa-nɔɔi)
• Tibetan: ཧེ་ནོ (he no)
• Turkish: Hanoi (tr)
• Turkmen: Hanoý
• Ukrainian: Хано́й m (Xanój)
• Urdu: ہنوئی m (hanoī)
• Uyghur: خانوي (xanoy)
• Uzbek: Xanoy
• Vietnamese: Hà Nội (vi) (河內 (vi))
• Yiddish: האַנוי n (hanoy)

Anagrams

• Nihoa

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Hanoi

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

Derived terms

• Hanoier
• Hanois

Danish

Proper noun

Hanoi

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈnɔʏ̯/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: ha noi

Proper noun

Hanoi n (proper noun, genitive Hanois or (optionally with an article) Hanoi)

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

Japanese

Romanization

Hanoi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ハノイ

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Hà Nội, from Chinese 河內／河内 (Hénèi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.nɔj/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -anɔj
• Syllabification: Ha‧noi

Proper noun

Hanoi n (indeclinable)

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

Derived terms

adjective

• hanojski

 

nouns

• hanojczyk
• hanojka

 

Further reading

• Hanoi in Polish dictionaries at PWN