chuông
Vietnamese
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Vietnamese chuâng. Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 鐘 (SV: chung).
Pronunciation
edit- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕuəŋ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕuəŋ˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [cuəŋ˧˧]
- Homophone: truông
Audio (Saigon): (file)
Noun
edit(classifier cái, chiếc) chuông • (鍾, 鐘)
- (music) a bell
- Chuông gọi hồn ai
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- (literally, “Whose Soul Does the Bell Call On?”)
- Đeo/Treo chuông cổ mèo
- Belling the Cat
- (by extension) the alarm sound of a timepiece or the ringtone of a telephone
- đồng hồ/điện thoại đổ chuông ― a clock/phone rings
- nhạc chuông ― a ringtone
Descendants
edit- → Khmer: ជួង (cuəng)
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