Kinh Thư
Vietnamese edit
Alternative forms edit
- (obsolete) Kinh Thơ
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kïŋ˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]
Proper noun edit
- (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