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Vietnamese
Etymology
sông (“river”) + Cửa Hàn (“one of the old names of Đà Nẵng”). In the past, Hàn was written in chữ Hán as 瀚 (SV: hãn).
The eggcorn sense comes from confusion between Hán (漢, the character used for China/Han or the Han River in Korea) and Hàn (韓, the character used for the nation of (South) Korea).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
sông Hàn
- the Hàn River (a river in Danang, Vietnam)
- (informal) Eggcorn of sông Hán (the Korean Han River)