Kinh Lễ

Vietnamese

In the book, Sơ học vấn tân 初學問津 (1888), Kinh Lễ is written as 經礼 in the chữ Nôm gloss.

Etymology

kinh +‎ Lễ, calque of Chinese 禮經／礼经 (Lễ kinh), following the head-initial structure of Vietnamese, instead of head-final in the original language.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kïŋ˧˧ le˦ˀ˥]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ lej˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ lej˨˩˦]

Proper noun

Kinh Lễ

1. (literature) The Book of Rites or Classic of Rites (a classic Confucian text describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty)

Coordinate terms

The Five Classics

• Kinh Thi (經詩): the Classic of Poetry
• Kinh Thư (經書): the Classic of History
• Kinh Lễ (經禮): the Book of Rites
• Kinh Dịch (經易): the I Ching
• Kinh Xuân Thu (經春秋): the Spring and Autumn Annals