điển

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from (law, canon).

Pronunciation

Noun

điển

  1. (literature) fable
  2. (literature) story
    • 1907, Áh-Mồ, “Người An Nam nên viết chữ An Nam”, in Đăng cổ tùng báo:
      Ngẫm mà xem! Thơ phú đời sau dùng điển Thúy-Kiều, Nhị-Độ-Mai, hay là điển trong các sách hay khác sắp làm ra, kém chi sâu-sắc bằng điển lấy trong Tứ-thơ, Ngũ-kinh.
      Just think! Poems in the future will reference the stories of Thuý-Kiều, Nhị-Độ-Mai, or some other great works from the near future, and they will not be inferior to the references to the fables from the Four Books and the Five Classics.

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