cửa hàng

Vietnamese

Etymology

cửa +‎ hàng.

The usage of cửa (“door”) here, as well as in cửa tiệm, cửa hiệu, likely started out as a classifier, but has become fixed and idiomatic so that it is no longer seen as a noun phrase consisting of classifier + noun by native speakers.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kɨə˧˩ haːŋ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨə˧˨ haːŋ˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kɨə˨˩˦ haːŋ˨˩]

Noun

cửa hàng • (𨷶行)

1. shop, store

See also

• hiệu
• tiệm