cửa hiệu
Vietnamese
Etymology
The usage of cửa (“door”) here, as well as in cửa hàng, cửa tiệm, likely started out as a classifier, but has become fixed and idiomatic so that it is no longer seen as a noun phrase consisting of classifier + noun by native speakers.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kɨə˧˩ hiəw˧˨ʔ]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kɨə˧˨ hiw˨˩ʔ]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [kɨə˨˩˦ hiw˨˩˨]
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