người ngoài hành tinh
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Vietnamese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literally “person from outside the planet”, erroneous calque of Chinese 外星人 (ngoại tinh nhân, literally “person from an ‘outside’ (another) planet”)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ŋɨəj˨˩ ŋwaːj˨˩ hajŋ̟˨˩ tïŋ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ŋɨj˦˩ ŋwaːj˦˩ hɛɲ˦˩ tɨn˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ŋɨj˨˩ ŋwaːj˨˩ han˨˩ tɨn˧˧]
Noun[edit]
- an extraterrestrial being; an alien