tứ đức
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 四德.
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tɨ˧˦ ʔɗɨk̚˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tɨ˨˩˦ ʔɗɨk̚˦˧˥]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [tɨ˦˥ ʔɗɨk̚˦˥]
Noun edit
- (Confucianism) the four qualities that women are supposed to have, namely công (“competence”), dung (“beauty”), ngôn (“eloquence”), hạnh (“virtue”)