tầng

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tang"

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

từng

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 層 (SV: tằng).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [təŋ˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [təŋ˦˩]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [təŋ˨˩]

Noun

tầng

(architecture) a story; a floor; a level
tầng 1 ― the first floor (either (Northern Vietnam) the ground floor, or (Southern Vietnam) the floor immediately above it)

tầng trệt ― (Southern Vietnam) the ground floor

tầng hầm ― an underground level

tầng lửng ― a full-fledged mezzanine, as opposed to a gác lửng which is just a platform used in small flats

18 tầng địa ngục ― 18 levels of hell

Usage notes

In Southern Vietnamese, the ground floor is called trệt and each floor above it is a lầu numbered from lầu 1. By contrast, in Northern and Central Vietnamese, floors are called tầng, the ground floor is numbered as tầng 1, and tầng 0 technically refers to a crawl space.

Synonyms

(story): lầu (Southern Vietnam)

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Vietnamese nouns without classifiers