Nhật Bổn

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Nhật Bản
Nhựt Bổn

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 日本, from Japanese 日本, with mixed Northern-Southern reading. The humorous effect is due to the usage of bổn, whose usage has been greatly reduced to some fringe cases, as is the case with some other originally literary Sino-Vietnamese readings.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɲət̚˧˨ʔ ʔɓon˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ɲək̚˨˩ʔ ʔɓoŋ˧˨]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɲək̚˨˩˨ ʔɓoŋ˨˩˦]
Audio (Hà Nội) (file)

Proper noun

Nhật Bổn

(somewhat humorous, archaic in formal writing) Japan

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