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Nguyễn Du (阮 攸; 3 January 1766 – 16 September 1820), courtesy name Tố Như (素 如) and art name Thanh Hiên (清 軒), is a celebrated Vietnamese poet and musician. He is most known for writing the epic poem The Tale of Kiều .
[18] [w] is the semivowel found in the English word win. [iə] is a rising diphthong, the sound of which is similar to the diphthong /ɪə/ found in the British English Received Pronunciation of ear. Finally, [n] occurs in the English word net. Furthermore, in Vietnamese Nguyễn is also pronounced with a tone. In Southern Vietnam, it is ...
While the Trịnh and the Nguyễn were fighting against each other, the Tây Sơn rebels overthrew both the Nguyễn and then the Trịnh over the span of a decade. Nguyễn Du was loyal to the Lê Dynasty and hoped for the return of the Lê emperor. In 1802 the Nguyễn lord Nguyễn Ánh conquered all of Vietnam forming the new Nguyễn dynasty.
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (a former prime minister) has Nguyễn as his family name, Tấn as his middle name, and Dũng as his personal name. In Vietnamese formal usage, he is referred to as Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, but by his personal name ("Mr. Dũng") in English-language text of Vietnamese multimedia, not by his family name ("Mr. Nguyễn").
Nguyễn Du High School for the Gifted 1994 Đắk Lắk province: Buôn Ma Thuột: Nguyễn Chí Thanh High School for the Gifted 2013 Đắk Nông province: Gia Nghĩa: Lê Quý Đôn High School for the Gifted 1995 Điện Biên province: Điện Biên Phủ: Lương Thế Vinh High School for the Gifted: 1994 Đồng Nai province: Biên Hòa
Nguyễn is the most common Vietnamese surname, held by an estimated 40 percent of Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen . The following is an incomplete list of individuals with this surname.
Some of her poems were collected and translated into English in John Balaban's Spring Essence (Copper Canyon Press, 2000, ISBN 1 55659 148 9). An important Vietnamese poet and her contemporary is Nguyễn Du, who similarly wrote poetry in demotic Vietnamese, and so helped to found a national literature.
The Nguyễn dynasty (Vietnamese: Nhà Nguyễn or Triều Nguyễn, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until French protectorate in 1883.