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Perhaps for this reason, the Vietnamese name for Pluto is not Minh Vương Tinh (冥王星 – lit. "underworld king star") as in other East Asian languages, but is Diêm Vương Tinh (閻王星) and sao Diêm Vương, named after the Hindu and Buddhist deity Yama. During the Hồ dynasty, Vietnam was officially known as Đại Ngu (大虞 ...
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The syllable-initial ch and tr digraphs are pronounced distinctly in the North-Central, Central, and Southern varieties but are merged in Northern varieties, which pronounce them the same way). Many North-Central varieties preserve three distinct pronunciations for d , gi , and r , but the Northern varieties have a three-way merger, and the ...
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
Thus, place names outside of East Asia can often be respelled in a way that Vietnamese can pronounce it using a transcription method called Vietnamization. For example, although Scotland can be called by its Sino-Vietnamese exonym, Tô Cách Lan, spellings such as Xcốt-len and Scôtlen are also acceptable. This method has more general ...
The main Vietnamese term used for Chinese characters is chữ Hán (𡨸漢).It is made of chữ meaning 'character' and Hán 'Han (referring to the Han dynasty)'.Other synonyms of chữ Hán includes chữ Nho (𡨸儒 [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ ɲɔ˧˧], literally 'Confucian characters') and Hán tự [a] (漢字 [haːn˧˦ tɨ˧˨ʔ] ⓘ) which was borrowed directly from Chinese.
Hậu học Tùng Châu Nguyễn Lập Phu biên. This record is authored by Nguyễn Dữ, a man from Gia Phúc in Hồng Châu. He is the eldest son of the former dynasty’s graduate scholar Nguyễn Tường Phiêu.
Some extremely famous people are sometimes referred to by their family names regardless of whether the name is an alias, such as Hồ Chí Minh (Bác Hồ—"Uncle Hồ ") (although his real name is Nguyễn Sinh Cung), Trịnh Công Sơn (nhạc Trịnh—"Trịnh music "), and Hồ Xuân Hương (nữ sĩ họ Hồ—"the poetess with the ...