giải âm

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  a historical category of texts aim to "explaining the sounds" of works written in Literary Chinese

Usage notes

 * There is significant diversity within works called giải âm (even within a single text), with some coming fairly close to the modern concept of translation, while some are closer to annotations with "word-matching" between Literary Chinese and Vietnamese, with little to no regard to the structure or syntax of Vietnamese. On the contrary, some / works focus on extracting as much meaning as possible from the source texts, with little to no regard to the structure and syntax of Literary Chinese.
 * 16th century,  (傳奇漫錄, "Casual Record of Transmitted Strange-Tales") by.
 * "zh"

- 惟其剛之守


 * 16th century, Nguyễn Thế Nghi's (attributed) Tân biên Truyền kỳ mạn lục tăng bổ giải âm tập chú (新編傳奇漫錄增補解音集註), giải âm/"translation" of the ''.
 * The "Vietnamese" line above closely matches the Chinese original on both character-by-character basis, and word order, although its readability as a "Vietnamese" sentence on its own (archaic vocabulary aside) is somewhat questionable. This example involves two common "translation devices" in giải âm texts:, commonly used to match with and , and , often matched with  and.
 * The "Vietnamese" line above closely matches the Chinese original on both character-by-character basis, and word order, although its readability as a "Vietnamese" sentence on its own (archaic vocabulary aside) is somewhat questionable. This example involves two common "translation devices" in giải âm texts:, commonly used to match with and , and , often matched with  and.