Tết

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Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 節 (“festival”, SV: tiết). Doublet of tiết.

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cái) Tết • (節)

  1. Lunar New Year (the first three days of the first lunar month)
  2. (by extension) Used in the names of some other holidays/festivals
    Tết dương lịch / Tết Tây ― New Year
    Tết Nguyên Đán / Tết âm lịch / Tết ta ― Lunar New Year
    Tết Đoan Ngọ ― Duanwu
    Tết Trung thu ― Mid-Autumn Festival
    Chúc anh chị một cái Tết vui vẻ.
    We wish you a Happy Lunar New Year.
  3. (rare, by extension, usually in simplified translation) a festival
    "tết" con trai ― Kodomo no Hi
    "tết" con gái ― Hinamatsuri

Usage notes

  • Tết can broadly include the last (30th) day of the last month of the previous lunar year (the "Lunar New Year's Eve"), and up to seven days after the first three days.
  • tiết (“section, period, time, season”)

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