nhiệm

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɲiəm˧˨ʔ]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ɲiəm˨˩ʔ]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɲim˨˩˨]

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “This one was usually spelled 冉, but that is probably not the etymology, although it's almost certainly of Sinitic origin still. Some compounds look like they were contaiminated by 念 (MC nemH), others look like diphthongization of nhẹm.”

Adjective

nhiệm

(obsolete as a free morpheme) miraculous; magical

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Doublet of nhậm.

Romanization

nhiệm

Sino-Vietnamese reading of 任

Derived terms