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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
(classifier cây, củ) hành • (行, 荇)
- green onion
- Synonyms: hành lá, hành ta
- shallot
- Synonyms: hành củ, hành ta, hành tía, hành tím, hẹ tây
- Short for hành tây (“onion”, literally “western onion”).
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Shortened from hành hạ.
Coinage most likely facilitated by the homophony of the unrelated noun above, leading to further coinage of phrases like bán hành (“to torment physically/to sell scallion”) and bón hành (“to give a one-sided beating/to spoon-feed scallion”).
Verb
hành
- (humorous) Short for hành hạ.
Noun
hành
- (often humorous) torment; physical abuse
Phim tới đâu rồi?
Nhân vật chính đang bị phản diện bán hành.- How is the movie going right now?
Yeah, the protagonist is getting the shit beaten out of him by the villain.
Etymology 3
Sino-Vietnamese word from 行 (“to go; to work”). Normally a bound morpheme, but became somewhat free due to expressions such as học hành, which may be expanded to học đi đôi với hành. học hành normally means "studies" but can be used as a rhetorical device to mean "theory and praxis".
Noun
hành
- (rhetorically accompanying học) Synonym of thực hành (“praxis; practice”)
Học (phải) đi đôi với hành.- Theory goes hand in hand with practice.
Học mà không có hành thì chẳng nên cơm cháo gì cả.- Theory without praxis is meaningless.