chữ Hán

See also: chūhàn

Vietnamese

Etymology

chữ (“character”) +‎ Hán (“Han”)

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ haːn˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɨ˧˨ haːŋ˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [cɨ˨˩˦ haːŋ˦˥]

Noun

chữ Hán • (𡨸漢)

1. Chinese character(s), used to write Literary Chinese, which was the written language of government and scholarship in Vietnam until the early 20th century.

Further reading

• History of writing in Vietnam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• chữ Hán on the Vietnamese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^vi