vần
Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 韻 (“rhyme”, SV: vận).
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vən˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [vəŋ˦˩]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [vəŋ˨˩] ~ [jəŋ˨˩]
- Homophones: vầng, dần, Dần
Noun
- (linguistics) a rhyme
- (poetry) a syllable
- vần trắc
- a syllable with any of the other tones
- (colloquial, poetry) a verse
- (colloquial, alphabetical sorting) an initial letter
See also
Derived terms
Adjective
vần