tiếng

Noun

 * 1) voice
 * cả tiếng
 * in a loud voice
 * nhỏ tiếng
 * in a soft voice
 * khan tiếng
 * in a hoarse voice
 * êm tiếng
 * in a gentle voice
 * 1) fame, reputation
 * có tiếng
 * to be famous
 * xấu tiếng
 * to be infamous
 * mất tiếng
 * to be discredited
 * 1) language
 * chảng biết tiếng nói
 * to not know the language
 * 1) sound
 * tiếng tla núi vạ ra
 * from the mountain comes an echo
 * 1) sound
 * tiếng tla núi vạ ra
 * from the mountain comes an echo

Descendants

 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
From, ultimately from , likely through a  language (compare 🇨🇬) since the tonal correspondence is atypical for a direct borrowing. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) voice
 * 2) sound
 * 3) language
 * 4) reputation or renown
 * 5)  syllable
 * 6)  dialect
 * 7)  accent
 * 8)  hour
 * 1)  syllable
 * 2)  dialect
 * 3)  accent
 * 4)  hour
 * 1)  syllable
 * 2)  dialect
 * 3)  accent
 * 4)  hour
 * 1)  hour
 * 1)  hour

Usage notes

 * tiếng meaning "language" is often used in compound words (eg. tiếng Anh "English") rather than as a free morpheme, similar to the Chinese (SV: ) and  (SV: ngữ). The latter two are sometimes used in a Sino-Vietnamese manner (eg. Pháp văn "French", Hoa ngữ "Chinese"). If one wishes to refer to "language" as a standalone term in formal contexts, ngôn ngữ is used instead. In informal contexts, one may use for instance ba thứ tiếng to mean "three languages".
 * The word âm is used instead of tiếng to mean a sound made by a television set, a radio, or another device that imitates or reproduces the sounds of other objects. Âm is also used in phonetics.
 * tiếng meaning "hour" is used in casual speech to refer to a period of time, to avoid confusion with giờ. giờ is used to refer to either a period of time or a point in time in formal context (for example, năm giờ means either "five hours" or "five o'clock"). One may also use tiếng  or giờ đồng hồ to refer to a period of time.

Synonyms

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