Vietnamese edit

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Etymology edit

hiệp +‎ vần. Compare 協韻.

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Verb edit

hiệp vần

  1. (poetry, of lines) to "rhyme", by ending in rhymes with the same trắc or bằng tones (e.g. ngang-ngang or huyền-ngang, but not ngang-sắc), and mostly the same, but sometimes permissible loosely similar, vowel-consonant sequences