柴棍

Etymology

 * Saigon
 * Attested earliest in 's 撫邊雜錄 (Phủ biên tạp lục, "Miscellaneous Chronicles of the Pacified Frontier"). See for etymology.

Noun

 * 1) wooden stick; firewood stick

Etymology
Borrowed from. The kanji are.

Etymology
As commonly seen with non-Sino-Vietnamese placenames (in particular) and in Nôm texts (in general), these two characters are used purely for their phonetic values (i.e. they are phonograms). Neither nor  has anything to do with the word's actual etymology. See for discussion about the etymology of the word.