phẩy

Aspirated variant of vẩy. See ve vẩy vs. phe phẩy.

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

phẩy

1. to gently fan (something) off; to whisk (off, away); to flick (away); to flap
2. to separate using a comma

   Synonym: phết

phẩy • (沛)

1. (calligraphy, typography) 丿 and ㇒, the left-falling stroke
2. (by extension) comma

   chấm phẩy ― a semicolon

3. (mathematics) "decimal point"

   không phẩy năm ― (zero) point five

4. (chiefly mathematics, physics, chemistry) a prime (symbol (′))

   Synonym: phết

   điểm A' (a phẩy) ― point A'

• When phẩy is used as a decimal point, unlike in English, a preceding không (“zero”) cannot be omitted.
• For the thousands, millions, etc. places, use either the actual point (the period .) or the space instead.
• For ease of access, the prime may be represented by the apostrophe/single quotation mark (') or the single left quotation mark (’) instead.

• mác (“the right-falling stroke”)