Hue

See also: hue, hué, Hué, Huế, Huê, Huë, and hü

English

Alternative forms

• Huế

Etymology

From Vietnamese Huế.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhweɪ/
• enPR: hwā
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Proper noun

Hue

1. A port city in central Vietnam.

   Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.

   • [1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60:

     Trouble had been brewing for some time, and it burst into the open in the ancient capital city of Hué on May 8, 1963. On that day 8,000 to 10,000 Buddhists marched in protest against a government order banning parades and the display of Buddhist flags on Buddha's birthday.]

2. A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.

Translations

city, province of Vietnam

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: Хюе (Hjue)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 順化／顺化 (seon⁶ faa³)

  Mandarin: 順化／顺化 (zh) (Shùnhuà)

• Dutch: Hué
• French: Hué (fr)
• Georgian: ჰუე (hue)
• German: Huë, Hué
• Hebrew: הואה‎
• Japanese: フエ (Fue)
• Khmer: ហ្វេ (km) (wee)
• Korean: 후에 (hue)
• Lao: ເວ້ (wē)
• Mongolian: Хюэ (Xjüe)
• Portuguese: Hue f, Hué f, Huê f
• Russian: Хюэ́ m (Xjué)
• Thai: เว้ (th) (wée)
• Vietnamese: Huế (vi) (化), (older name) Thuận Hóa (vi) (順化)

Anagrams

• HEU

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German huon, from Old High German huon, from Proto-West Germanic *hōn (“hen, chicken”). Cognate with German Huhn, Dutch hoen.

Noun

Hue f (diminutive Hüendli)

1. (Uri) chicken (animal)

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 29.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Hué, Huê

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Huế.

Proper noun

Hue f

1. Hue (a province and city in Vietnam)