Tết

See also: tet, Tet, tét, tèt, tēt, teṭ, -tet, and tēṭ

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• tết

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 節 (“festival”, SV: tiết). Doublet of tiết.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tet̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tet̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [təːt̚˦˥]

Noun

(classifier cái) Tết • (節)

1. Lunar New Year (the first three days of the first lunar month)
2. (by extension) Used in the names of some other holidays/festivals

   Tết dương lịch / Tết Tây

   New Year

   Tết Nguyên Đán / Tết âm lịch / Tết ta

   Lunar New Year

   Tết Đoan Ngọ

   Duanwu

   Tết Trung Thu

   Mid-Autumn Festival

   Chúc anh chị một cái Tết vui vẻ.

   We wish you a Happy Lunar New Year.

3. (rare, by extension, usually in simplified translation) a festival

   "tết" con trai ― Kodomo no Hi

   "tết" con gái ― Hinamatsuri

Usage notes

• Tết can broadly include the last (30th) day of the last month of the previous lunar year (the "Lunar New Year's Eve"), and up to seven days after the first three days.

Related terms

• tiết (“section, period, time, season”)

See also

• Tết (định hướng) on the Vietnamese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^vi