công chúa

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 公主 (SV: công chủ). In sense 2, a semantic loan from English princess, which itself is a semantic loan from Japanese 姫 (hime, “lady; princess”). See also Âu Cơ.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ t͡ɕuə˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ t͡ɕuə˨˩˦]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ cuə˦˥]

Noun

công chúa

princess, daughter of a monarch (king, emperor)
princess, daughter of a shogun

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