thương hải tang điền

Vietnamese

Etymology

    Sino-Vietnamese word from 滄海桑田 (“turning the high seas into mulberry forests”)

    Pronunciation

    • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰɨəŋ˧˧ haːj˧˩ taːŋ˧˧ ʔɗiən˨˩]
    • (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰɨəŋ˧˧ haːj˧˨ taːŋ˧˧ ʔɗiəŋ˦˩]
    • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰɨəŋ˧˧ haːj˨˩˦ taːŋ˧˧ ʔɗiəŋ˨˩]

    Noun

    thương hải tang điền

    1. (dated, literary) an epic change

    References

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