hồ Hoàn Kiếm
Vietnamese
Etymology
hồ (“lake”) + hoàn (“to return”) + kiếm (“sword”), from the legend in which Lê Lợi returned the sword he borrowed from the (deprecated template usage) Golden Turtle God after defeating Ming invaders. The turtle god is, of course, fictional, but there is an actual symbolic turtle in the lake.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ho˨˩ hwaːn˨˩ kiəm˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [how˦˩ hwaːŋ˦˩ kiəm˦˧˥]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [how˨˩ waːŋ˨˩ kim˦˥]
Proper noun
- Hoàn Kiếm Lake (in Hanoi, Vietnam)
- Synonym: Hồ Gươm