giốc

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 角 (SV: giác).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zəwk͡p̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jəwk͡p̚˦˧˥]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [jəwk͡p̚˦˥]

Noun

giốc

(music) the third note in the classic pentatonic scale^[1]

See also

ngũ âm; ngũ cung

References

^ Dinh-hoa Nguyen (1995) “giốc”, in NTC's Vietnamese–English Dictionary, →ISBN, page 213

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