sông Chảy

Vietnamese

Etymology

sông (“river”) +‎ chảy (“to flow”).

A tên chữ (“literary name”) of this river was 㵢江 (now common read in Sino-Vietnamese as Lôi giang), where the first element is a phonogram for the verb trôi (“to float”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [səwŋ͡m˧˧ t͡ɕaj˧˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ t͡ɕaj˧˨] ~ [səwŋ͡m˧˧ t͡ɕaj˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ ca(ː)j˨˩˦] ~ [səwŋ͡m˧˧ ca(ː)j˨˩˦]

Proper noun

sông Chảy

1. Chảy River (a river in northern Vietnam)