công hầu bá tử nam

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 公 (“duke”), 侯 (“marquis”), 伯 (“count”) and 子 (“viscount”), from Chinese 公侯伯子男. Compare Japanese 公侯伯子男 (kōkōhakushidan). The correspondence between the Chinese and European ranks were wholly accidental, but were institutionalized in Qing China and Meiji Japan.

Noun

công hầu bá tử nam

1. (collective) the five ranks of nobility in feudal China
2. (collective) the five ranks of peerage in feudal Europe

   Meronyms: bá tước, công tước, hầu tước, nam tước, tử tước