thanh huyền

Vietnamese

Etymology

thanh (“tone”) +‎ huyền (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

thanh huyền

(phonetics) the “falling” tone, one of the six tones in the Vietnamese language, marked by the diacritic dấu huyền (grave accent)

Coordinate terms

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