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  • 1 Vietnamese
    • 1.1 Etymology
    • 1.2 Pronunciation
    • 1.3 Adjective
      • 1.3.1 Derived terms

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (SV: thanh).

Attested as a variant of xênh (as in xênh xang) in Đại Nam Quấc âm tự vị (1895). The earlier meaning appears to be along the line of "neat (of appearance), graceful (of manner)", as in the (now obsolete?) compound xinh lịch (cf. thanh lịch (清歷)).

Pronunciation

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  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [sïŋ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [sɨn˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [sɨn˧˧]

Adjective

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xinh • (撐, 撑, 生, 𣛟, 𦎡) (diminutive reduplication xinh xinh)

  1. nice; pretty xinh như con tinh tinhpretty as a chimpanzee (rhyming slang)

Derived terms

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  • xinh đẹp
  • xinh tươi
  • xinh xắn
  • xinh xẻo
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