chưng

Etymology 1
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Verb

 * 1) to show off, to sport

Etymology 2
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Verb

 * 1) to distill

Etymology 3
In pre-modern writing of a more colloquial nature and original works, chưng was used as a preposition to indicate place and time. However, this particle/preposition was also a literary device widely used in translation of Chinese texts, as a "stand-in" of sort for the Chinese markers and. See Washizawa (2017) for more information.

Particle

 * 1)  in; on; at
 * 2) * late 17th - early 18th c. CE, Thiên Nam Ngữ Lục Ngoại Kỷ (天南語錄外紀 "Peripheral Records in the Language of the Southern Sky"), 63b
 * 3)  due to; because
 * 4) * 古珠法雲佛本行語錄 Cổ Châu Pháp Vân phật bổn hạnh ngữ lục ("Record of what has been said about the origin and deeds of the Cloud Dharma Buddha at "), Vietnamese translation possibly by Viên Thái 圓態, 1752 version, 4b
 * 1)  due to; because
 * 2) * 古珠法雲佛本行語錄 Cổ Châu Pháp Vân phật bổn hạnh ngữ lục ("Record of what has been said about the origin and deeds of the Cloud Dharma Buddha at "), Vietnamese translation possibly by Viên Thái 圓態, 1752 version, 4b
 * 1) * 古珠法雲佛本行語錄 Cổ Châu Pháp Vân phật bổn hạnh ngữ lục ("Record of what has been said about the origin and deeds of the Cloud Dharma Buddha at "), Vietnamese translation possibly by Viên Thái 圓態, 1752 version, 4b

Usage notes
In the spoken/colloquial form of pre-modern Vietnamese, at least the compound used to enjoy some popular usage, although the presence of chưng as a stand-alone word is much less widespread than in the various  (解音) and  (解義) texts. Note the position of Chinese and Vietnamese chưng in relative to  and "boiling water and fire" in the example below.