cây số
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
- (shortened) cây
Etymology
cây (“tree; plant”) + số (“number”).
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kəj˧˧ so˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kəj˧˧ ʂow˨˩˦] ~ [kəj˧˧ sow˨˩˦]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [kəj˧˧ ʂow˦˥] ~ [kəj˧˧ sow˦˥]
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)
Noun
- a marker made of concrete, similar to a headstone, that marks each kilometer on a road
- (colloquial) kilometer/kilometre
- (Can we date this quote?), “Bạn tôi”, performed by Quang Linh:
- Bạn tôi sáng đạp xe hai mươi cây số
- My friend rides twenty kilometers on his bicycle
- 2018 August 10, Trầm Hương Thơ, “Cộng Đồng Công Giáo Việt Nam miền Trung Tây Đức Quốc hành hương Đức Mẹ Lộ Đức [Vietnamese Catholic Community of West-Central Germany goes on a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Lourdes]”, in VietCatholic News[1], retrieved 23 July 2022:
References
- Hồ Ngọc Đức, editor (2003), “cây số”, in Việt–Việt[2] (DICT), Leipzig: Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details), archived from the original on 12 November 2024