vần

See also: Appendix:Variations of "van"

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 韻 (“rhyme”, SV: vận).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vən˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [vəŋ˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [vəŋ˨˩] ~ [jəŋ˨˩]
Homophones: vầng, dần, Dần

Noun

vần • (韵, 韻)

(linguistics) a rhyme
(poetry) a syllable
vần bằng ― a syllable with either the ngang or the huyền tone

vần trắc ― a syllable with any of the other tones
(colloquial, poetry) a verse
(colloquial, alphabetical sorting) an initial letter

See also

Derived terms

đánh vần
gieo vần
hiệp vần
hợp vần

thanh; thanh mẫu
vận mẫu

Adjective

vần

(of poetry, etc.) rhyming

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