tư
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tu"
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 四 (“four”, SV: tứ).
Numeral
- (chiefly Northern Vietnam, only in compounds) four
- hai mươi tư
- twenty four
- một trăm linh tư
- one hundred and four
- hai mươi tư
- fourth
- ba phần tư
- three quarters
- thứ tư
- fourth/Wednesday
- tháng tư
- fourth month/April
- ba phần tư
- (Southern Vietnam, of a sibling) third-born
- chú tư
- "fourth" uncle (your grandparents' third child, who's male and who's younger than one of your parents)
- anh tư
- "fourth" big brother (your parents' third child who's your older brother)
- chị tư
- "fourth" big sister (your parents' third child who's your older sister, or a woman whose husband's his parents' third child)
- chú tư
Usage notes
- Unlike other cardinal numbers, the ordinal phrasal expression for bốn (“four”) is generally not *thứ bốn, but thứ tư (“fourth”).
See also
Etymology 2
Sino-Vietnamese word from 私
Adjective
tư
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