công chúa

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (humorous) công túa

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 公主 (SV: công chủ).

In sense 2, a semantic loan from English princess, which itself is a semantic loan from Japanese 姫 (hime, “lady; princess”), whose graphic origin is the graph of Chinese 姬 (“'lady' ← 'ancestral surname of the Zhou monarchs & patrilineally related nobles'”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ t͡ɕuə˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ t͡ɕuə˨˩˦]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ cuə˦˥]

Noun

công chúa

  1. princess, daughter of a monarch (king, emperor)
  2. princess, daughter of a shogun
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