chữ mềm
Vietnamese
Etymology
chữ (“character”) + mềm (“soft”). Coined as both a counterpart to chữ cứng (“katakana, "hard characters"”) and because hiragana look "softer" since they derived from cursive phonograms.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ mem˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɨ˧˨ mem˦˩]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [cɨ˨˩˦ mem˨˩]
See also
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