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Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 豪傑.
Pronunciation
Noun
hào kiệt
- (archaic) a man with outstanding abilities, a hero
(Can we date this quote?), Ngô Tất Tố, transl., Bình Ngô đại cáo, translation of 平吳大誥 (1428) by Nguyễn Trãi:Từ Triệu, Đinh, Lí, Trần, bao đời xây nền độc lập, / Cùng Hán, Đường, Tống, Nguyên, mỗi bên hùng cứ một phương, / Tuy mạnh yếu có lúc khác nhau, / Song hào kiệt thời nào cũng có.- Since Triệu, Đinh, Lý, Trần, we have been building our own state, / Along with Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, we defended our own empire. / We have had times of strength and of weakness, / But always have we had heroes.