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Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]
Vietnamese uses 22 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.The 4 remaining letters aren't considered part of the Vietnamese alphabet although they are used to write loanwords, languages of other ethnic groups in the country based on Vietnamese phonetics to differentiate the meanings or even Vietnamese dialects, for example: dz or z for southerner pronunciation of v in standard Vietnamese.
Most chữ Hán characters that were used for Vietnamese words were often used for their Sino-Vietnamese pronunciations rather than their meaning which could be completely different from the actual word being used. These characters were called chữ giả tá (phonetic loan characters), [32] due to them being borrowed phonetically. This was one ...
Each complete English word has an arbitrary integer value associated with it. In computer science, a trie ( / ˈ t r aɪ / , / ˈ t r iː / ), also known as a digital tree or prefix tree , [ 1 ] is a specialized search tree data structure used to store and retrieve strings from a dictionary or set.
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...
Nam quốc sơn hà (chữ Hán: 南 國 山 河, lit. ' Mountains and Rivers of the Southern Country ' ) is a famous 10th- to 11th-century Vietnamese patriotic poem . Dubbed "Vietnam's first Declaration of Independence", [ 1 ] it asserts the sovereignty of Vietnam 's rulers over its lands.
A wedding guest is feeling slighted after being invited to the couple's ceremony and reception — but not the dinner held in between the two events.
[30] [31] It looked like a snail shell (its name, Cổ Loa 古 螺, means "old snail": according to Đại Việt Sử Ký Toàn Thư, the citadel is shaped like a snail [‡ 3]). [ 32 ] [ 33 ] The events related to the construction of Cổ Loa are remembered in the legend of the golden turtle.