tự cung tự cấp

Vietnamese

Etymology

The term shared with Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, 自給自足／自给自足 (tự cấp tự túc), is attested but obsolete in Vietnamese in everyday life. It seems to persist mainly in Marxist literature.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tɨ˧˨ʔ kʊwŋ͡m˧˧ tɨ˧˨ʔ kəp̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tɨ˨˩ʔ kʊwŋ͡m˧˧ tɨ˨˩ʔ kəp̚˦˧˥]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [tɨ˨˩˨ kʊwŋ͡m˧˧ tɨ˨˩˨ kəp̚˦˥]

Verb

tự cung tự cấp

to be self-sufficient