ẩn

Sino-Vietnamese word from 隱.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔən˧˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔəŋ˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔəŋ˨˩˦]

ẩn

1. latent
2. (computing) hidden

ẩn

1. (of a person) to seclude oneself from the world
2. (literary) to hide oneself
3. (computing) to hide

ẩn

1. clipping of ẩn số (“mathematical unknown”)

• "Hide" and "hidden" may not be a computing term per se, but ẩn is chiefly used to translate them in computing contexts, as in thư mục ẩn ("hidden folder").

• biến (“variable”)
• nghiệm (“root; zero”)