Kinh Thư

Vietnamese

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

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Kinh Thơ

Etymology

kinh +‎ Thư, calque of Chinese 書經／书经 (Thư kinh), following the head-initial structure of Vietnamese, instead of head-final in the original language.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kïŋ˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]

Proper noun

Kinh Thư • (經書)

1. (literature) the Classic of History (a collection of documents and speeches alleged to have been written by rulers and officials of the early Zhou Dynasty and before)

   Synonym: Thượng Thư

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