tư
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tu"
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 四 (“four”, SV: tứ).
NumeralEdit
- (chiefly Northern Vietnam, only in compounds) four
- hai mươi tư ― twenty four
- một trăm linh tư ― one hundred and four
- fourth
- ba phần tư ― three quarters
- thứ tư ― fourth/Wednesday
- tháng tư ― fourth month/April
- (Southern Vietnam, of a sibling) third-born
- chú tư ― "fourth" uncle (your grandparents' third child, who's male and who's younger than one of your parents)
- anh tư ― "fourth" big brother (your parents' third child who's your older brother)
- chị tư ― "fourth" big sister (your parents' third child who's your older sister, or a woman whose husband's his parents' third child)
Usage notesEdit
- Unlike other cardinal numbers, the ordinal phrasal expression for bốn (“four”) is generally not *thứ bốn, but thứ tư (“fourth”).
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 私.
AdjectiveEdit
tư
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
Etymology 3Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 斯.
DeterminerEdit
tư
- (only in compounds) this (occured in compounds derived from or in the style of Classical Chinese)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 4Edit
RomanizationEdit
tư
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 司
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 資
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 思
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 咨
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 姿
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 玆
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 滋