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Vietnamese

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Alternative forms

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• (Northern Vietnam, rare) nghìn cân treo sợi tóc

Etymology

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Probably a calque of Chinese 千鈞一髮 / 千钧一发 (thiên quán nhất phát); literally: “A thousand jun hangs from a strip of hair.”

The variant with Northern nghìn for "thousand" is attested, but is much less common in contemporary Vietnamese.

Pronunciation

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• (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ŋaːn˨˩ kən˧˧ t͡ɕɛw˧˧ səːj˧˨ʔ tawk͡p̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA(key): [ŋaːŋ˦˩ kəŋ˧˧ ʈɛw˧˧ ʂəːj˨˩ʔ tawk͡p̚˦˧˥] ~ [ŋaːŋ˦˩ kəŋ˧˧ ʈɛw˧˧ səːj˨˩ʔ tawk͡p̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA(key): [ŋaːŋ˨˩ kəŋ˧˧ ʈɛw˧˧ ʂəːj˨˩˨ tawk͡p̚˦˥] ~ [ŋaːŋ˨˩ kəŋ˧˧ ʈɛw˧˧ səːj˨˩˨ tawk͡p̚˦˥]

Idiom

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ngàn cân treo sợi tóc

1. precarious, on thin ice
   • 2017, Vũ Hoàng, “Cảnh 'ngàn cân treo sợi tóc' nơi tuyến lửa chống IS”, in VnExpress‎[1]:Người dân tại chảo lửa Mosul, Iraq, luôn phải sống trong cảnh "ngàn cân treo sợi tóc", đương đầu với mưa bom, bão đạn, gần như mỗi ngày.Civilians in volatile Mosul, Iraq, continuously lead precarious lives, having to deal with bombs raining down and showers of bullets almost daily.

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