thời gian

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 時間, composed of 時 (“time”) and 間 (“interval”), from Japanese 時間 (jikan), from Literary Chinese 時間 (shíjiān, “unit of time; period of time; occasion; now”).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰəːj˨˩ zaːn˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰəːj˦˩ jaːŋ˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tʰəːj˨˩ jaːŋ˧˧]

Noun

thời gian

time (inevitable passing of events)
Coordinate term: không gian

một thời gian ― a while; for a while

Derived terms

cỗ máy thời gian (“time machine”)
giết thời gian (“to kill time”)
không-thời gian (空時間, “spacetime”)
thời gian biểu (時間表, “timetable”)
thời gian cách li (時間隔離, “quarantine time”)
thời gian thực (時間實, “real time”)

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