ngần
Vietnamese
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editNon-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 垠 (SV: ngân).
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Etymology 2
editNon-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 銀 (“silver”, SV: ngân).
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- (in compounds) silvery white; very white
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Truyện Kiều (傳翹) [The Tale of Kieu], Liễu Văn Ðường edition, published 1866, lines 1191-1192:
惜 台 𥪞 價 𤽸 銀 典 風 塵 拱 風 塵 如 唉 - What a pity for such a girl, purer than snow, and whiter than silver!
Here she was now, in this dusty and windy world, undergoing the same misfortunes of life as those which had fallen upon others.
- What a pity for such a girl, purer than snow, and whiter than silver!
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