chữ kép

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Vietnamese

Examples

𢀭, phonetics 巨 (MC gjoX) + 朝 (MC drjew), modern giàu (“rich”)
𨋤, phonetics 車 (MC kjo|tsyhae) + 盧 (MC lu), modern so (“to compare”)
𪩮, phonetics 巴 (MC pae) + 夌 (MC ling), modern trăng (“the Moon”)
𪬪, phonetics 个 (MC kaH) + 愈 (MC yuX), modern gió (“wind”)

Alternative forms

Etymology

chữ (“character”) +‎ kép (“compound, double”).

Pronunciation

Noun

chữ kép

  1. (historical, writing) compound phonograms, a category of Nôm characters where each character is composed of two components that are both phonetics; these characters were more popular in the earlier Nôm texts, representing words with initial cluster or presyllable, but their usage persists to some extent even after phonological changes had rendered the phonetics obscure
    • Chỉ nam ngọc âm giải nghĩa (指南玉音解義)
      本初𫜵喃車宁甲
      㝵少學坤別坤𫀅
      Vốn xưa làm Nôm xe chữ kép,
      Người thiếu học khôn biết khôn xem.
      Back then, when composing Nôm works, there were many double characters,
      Causing much inconvenience to those who were not well-learned.

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