tầng

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 層 (SV: tằng).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [təŋ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [təŋ˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [təŋ˨˩]

tầng

1. (architecture) a story; a floor; a level

   tầng 1

   the first floor (either (Northern Vietnam) the ground floor, or (Southern Vietnam) the floor immediately above it)

   tầng trệt

   (Southern Vietnam) the ground floor

   tầng hầm

   an underground level

   tầng lửng

   a full-fledged mezzanine, as opposed to a gác lửng which is just a platform used in small flats

   18 tầng địa ngục

   18 levels of hell

In southern Vietnamese, the ground floor is called trệt and each floor above it is a lầu numbered from lầu 1. By contrast, in northern and central Vietnamese, floors are called tầng, the ground floor is numbered as tầng 1, and tầng 0 technically refers to a crawl space.

• (story): lầu (southern Vietnam)