thanh hỏi

Vietnamese

Etymology

thanh (“tone”) +‎ hỏi (“to ask”).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰajŋ̟˧˧ hɔj˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰɛɲ˧˧ hɔj˧˨]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʰan˧˧ hɔj˨˩˦]

Noun

thanh hỏi

(phonetics) the “mid-falling” tone, one of the six tones in the Vietnamese language, marked by the diacritic dấu hỏi (hook above)

Coordinate terms

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Vietnamese nouns without classifiers