hồ Hoàn Kiếm
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
hồ (“lake”) + hoàn (“to return”) + kiếm (“sword”), from the legend in which Lê Lợi returned the sword he borrowed from the Golden Turtle God after defeating Ming invaders. The turtle god is, of course, fictional, but there is an actual symbolic turtle in the lake.
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ho˨˩ hwaːn˨˩ kiəm˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [how˦˩ hwaːŋ˦˩ kiəm˦˧˥]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [how˨˩ waːŋ˨˩ kim˦˥]
Proper noun edit
- Hoàn Kiếm Lake (in Hanoi, Vietnam)
- Synonym: Hồ Gươm