xưng hùng

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 稱雄.

Pronunciation

Verb

xưng hùng

  1. to consider oneself the highest power in a certain region, to not tolerate any other authority
    • 2005, chapter 2, in Cao Tự Thanh, transl., Anh hùng xạ điêu, Văn học, translation of 射雕英雄传 by Jīn Yōng (Kim Dung):
      Phái Toàn Chân của họ xưng hùng ở phương Bắc, xuống phương Nam lại muốn hoành hành bá đạo như thế cũng chưa biết chừng.
      Their Quánzhēn sect consider themselves the masters of the North; when they come down South and want to call the shots and play king like that, I don't really know what to do.