Hanoi

See also: Hanói, Hanoï, Hà Nội, and ha noi

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Hanoi

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Alternative forms

Ha Noi, Hà Nội

Etymology

From Vietnamese Hà Nội, which is a Sino-Vietnamese word, 河內.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɑːˈnɔɪ/, /hæˈnɔɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Proper noun

Hanoi

The capital city of Vietnam.
- 1959 December, “Talking of Trains: Five trains to Hanoi”, in Trains Illustrated, page 579:
  If you have seventeen days and £168 to spare, can satisfy the Iron Curtain authorities of your bona fides and your taste runs to marathon rail travel, you can now board the "Night Ferry" at Victoria and ride across the whole of Europe and Asia to Hanoi, capital of North Viet-Nam, changing carriage only at Brussels, Berlin, Moscow and Pekin.
- 1999, John McCain, Faith of My Fathers‎^[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285:
  YOUR SON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHEN SHOT DOWN IN HANOI BUT HAS MADE FINE RECOVERY AND NOW, ACCORDING THIS GROUP, LOOKS "QUITE WELL." HE HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE AND HAS STOOD UP MANFULLY AGAINST ALL EFFORTS TO PERSUADE HIM TO UTTER TRAITOROUS STATEMENTS.
(metonymically) the Vietnamese government.

Synonyms

Tonkin

Derived terms

Translations

capital of Vietnam

Afrikaans: Hanoi
Albanian: Hanoi
Amharic: ሀኖይ (hänoy)
Arabic: هَانُوي f (hanūy), هَانُوي f (hanoy)
Armenian: Հանոյ (Hanoy)
Azerbaijani: Hanoy
Belarusian: Хано́й m (Xanój)
Bengali: হ্যানয় (bn) (hênoẏ)
Bulgarian: Хано́й m (Hanój)
Burmese: ဟာနွိုင်း (ha-nwuing:)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 河內／河内 (yue) (ho⁴ noi⁶)

Hokkien: 河內／河内 (Hô-lāi)

Mandarin: 河內／河内 (zh) (Hénèi)
Czech: Hanoj (cs) f
Danish: Hanoi n
Dutch: Hanoi (nl) n
Esperanto: Hanojo (eo)
Estonian: Hanoi (et)
Finnish: Hanoi (fi)
French: Hanoï (fr) f
Georgian: ჰანოი (ka) (hanoi)
German: Hanoi (de) n
Greek: Ανόι (el) n (Anói)
Hebrew: האנוי f
Hindi: हनोई m (hanoī)
Hungarian: Hanoi (hu)
Icelandic: Hanoí
Irish: Hanáí f
Italian: Hanoi (it)
Japanese: ハノイ (ja) (Hanoi)
Kazakh: Ханой (Xanoi)
Khmer: ហាណូយ (km) (haanouy)
Korean: 하노이 (ko) (Hanoi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Hanoi
Kyrgyz: Ханой (ky) (Hanoy)
Lao: ຮ່າໂນຍ (hā nōi)
Latvian: Hanoja f
Lithuanian: Hanojus m
Macedonian: Ханој m (Hanoj)
Maltese: Ħanoj
Marathi: हॅनोई n (hĕnoī), हानोई n (hānoī)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Ханой (Xanoj)
Navajo: Hanóii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Hanoi n

Nynorsk: Hanoi n
Pashto: هانوى m (hānoy)
Persian: هانوی (hânuy)
Polish: Hanoi (pl) n
Portuguese: Hanói f
Romanian: Hanoi (ro)
Russian: Хано́й (ru) m (Xanój)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ханој m

Roman: Hanoj m
Sinhalese: හැනෝයි (hænōyi)
Slovak: Hanoj (sk) m
Slovene: Hanoj m
Spanish: Hanói (es) f
Swahili: Hanoi
Swedish: Hanoi (sv) n
Tagalog: Hanoi
Tajik: Ҳаной (Hanoy)
Tamil: ஹனோய் (haṉōy)
Tatar: Ханой (Xanoy)
Thai: ฮานอย (th) (haa-nɔɔi)
Tibetan: ཧེ་ནོ (he no)
Turkish: Hanoi (tr)
Turkmen: Hanoý
Ukrainian: Хано́й m (Xanój)
Urdu: ہنوئی m (hanoī)
Uyghur: خانوي (xanoy)
Uzbek: Xanoy
Vietnamese: Hà Nội (vi) (河內 (vi))
Yiddish: האַנוי n (hanoy)