nhục

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Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Adjective

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nhục

  1. humiliated; dishonored
    Chết vinh còn hơn sống nhục.
    It's better to die an honored death than to live a dishonored life.
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Etymology 2

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Within Vietic, certain languages possess a loan from the same source, cf. Pong kɲuk⁷ and similar forms in several Muong lects with tone B1/D1 (Muong Bi nhúc). The corresponding Vietnamese form would be the unattested *nhúc, which was apparently lost after the Common-Viet-Muong stage during the development of Vietnamese and did not replace the native Vietic word thịt.

Romanization

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nhục

  1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of (meat)
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