quoc ngu

See also: quốc ngữ

English

Etymology

From Vietnamese quốc ngữ.

Noun

quoc ngu (uncountable)

  1. The romanized writing system used to write Vietnamese.
    • 2003, Thaveeporn Vasavakul, edited by Brown & Ganguly, Fighting Words, page 223:
      Promoters of quoc ngu were Vietnamese intellectuals who were either collaborators or anticolonial revolutionaries.
    • 2016, Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Penguin, published 2017, page 107:
      Students studied French and quoc ngu. Most (not all) agreed that Chinese characters no longer sufficed.
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