phượng hoàng

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 鳳凰 (“fenghuang”; SV: phụng hoàng).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [fɨəŋ˧˨ʔ hwaːŋ˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [fɨəŋ˨˩ʔ hwaːŋ˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [fɨəŋ˨˩˨ waːŋ˨˩]

Noun

(classifier con) phượng hoàng

(Chinese mythology) a fenghuang
(by extension, mythology) a phoenix
Hội Phượng Hoàng ― The Order of the Phoenix

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