phần tử

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See also: phân tử, and phân từ

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 分子, composed of (portion) and (child; small thing), from Japanese 分子 (bunshi), from Middle Chinese 分子 (bjunH tsiX, part; division; component; member, literally portion child).

分子 [Vietnamese Literary Sinitic, trad.]
From: Commentary of Guliang, circa 206 BCE– 9 CE
Yan is a part of Zhou

The tone is slightly irregular, and a regular form would be *phận tử. For the tone difference between phần tử and phân tử, see phần. Doublet of phân tử. Cognate with Mandarin 分子 (fènzǐ) and Cantonese 分子 (fan6 zi2).

Pronunciation

Noun

phần tử

  1. (set theory) an element
    tập hợp A có 2 phần tử
    there are 2 elements in set A
  2. (politics, chiefly in compounds) an element
    phần tử cực đoan
    radical elements

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