bãi chợ

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 罷市 (“to protest by suspending business”, SV: bãi thị).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːj˦ˀ˥ t͡ɕəː˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːj˧˨ t͡ɕəː˨˩ʔ]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːj˨˩˦ cəː˨˩˨]

Verb

bãi chợ

1. (rare) to market strike; to protest by suspending market trading; to have a vendor strike