cửa hiệu

Vietnamese

Etymology

cửa +‎ hiệu.

The usage of cửa (“door”) here, as well as in cửa hàng, cửa tiệm, likely started out as a classifier, but has become fixed and idiomatic so that it is no longer seen as a noun phrase consisting of classifier + noun by native speakers.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kɨə˧˩ hiəw˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨə˧˨ hiw˨˩ʔ]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɨə˨˩˦ hiw˨˩˨]

Noun

cửa hiệu

1. (small) store, (small) shop

See also

• cửa hàng
• cửa tiệm