thương hải tang điền

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 滄海桑田 (“turning the high seas into mulberry forests”)

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰɨəŋ˧˧ haːj˧˩ taːŋ˧˧ ʔɗiən˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰɨəŋ˧˧ haːj˧˨ taːŋ˧˧ ʔɗiəŋ˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tʰɨəŋ˧˧ haːj˨˩˦ taːŋ˧˧ ʔɗiəŋ˨˩]

Noun

thương hải tang điền

(dated, literary) an epic change

Related terms

tang hải
tang thương

References

"thương hải tang điền" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

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