hành
See also: hạnh
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
(classifier cây, củ) hành • (行, 荇)
- green onion
- shallot
- Short for hành tây (“onion”, literally “western onion”).
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Shortened from hành hạ.
Coinage most likely facilitated by the homophony of the unrelated noun above, leading to further coinage of phrases like bán hành (“to torment physically/to sell scallion”) and bón hành (“to give a one-sided beating/to spoon-feed scallion”).
Verb edit
hành
Noun edit
hành
- (often humorous) torment; physical abuse
- Phim tới đâu rồi?
Nhân vật chính đang bị phản diện bán hành.- How is the movie going right now?
Yeah, the protagonist is getting the shit beaten out of him by the villain.
- How is the movie going right now?
Etymology 3 edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 行 (“to go; to work”). Normally a bound morpheme, but became somewhat free due to expressions such as học hành, which may be expanded to học đi đôi với hành. học hành normally means "studies" but can be used as a rhetorical device to mean "theory and praxis".
Noun edit
hành