Cát Tường
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Vietnamese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Sino-Vietnamese word from 吉祥 (“lucky”), Literary Chinese 吉祥 (jíxiáng), calqued from Sanskrit श्री (śrī)
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- Shri (another name for Lakshmi)
- (rare) a unisex given name from Chinese
- Như Ý - Cát Tường
- The Luckiest Man
- (literally, “Ruyi and Jixiang; Lucky in the Exact Way You Wish”)
- Nguyễn Trí Cát Tường
- 2022 February 9, Phạm Linh, “Chuyện về danh họa Nguyễn Cát Tường, người thiết kế nên chiếc áo dài đầu tiên của Việt Nam [The Story of the Great Artist Nguyễn Cát Tường, Who Designed the First Aodai in Vietnam]”, in Sàigòneer:
- Họa sĩ Nguyễn Cát Tường sinh năm 1911 ở Sơn Tây, một tỉnh cũ ở địa phận miền Bắc. Bạn bè gọi anh là "Lemur" — trong tiếng Pháp có nghĩa là "bức tường" — theo tên tiếng Việt của mình.
- The artist Nguyễn Cát Tường was born in 1911 in Sơn Tây, a former district in the North. His friends called him "Lemur," French for "the wall", because his name happened to sound like the Vietnamese word for "wall."
Usage notes[edit]
The actual given name may well be Tường, and Cát may be treated as a middle name.
See also[edit]
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