cung cấm

Vietnamese

Etymology

cung (“palace”) +‎ cấm (“to forbid”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kʊwŋ͡m˧˧ kəm˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kʊwŋ͡m˧˧ kəm˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kʊwŋ͡m˧˧ kəm˦˥]

Noun

cung cấm

  1. forbidden city, forbidden palace (place where the monarch lives)
    Synonym: cấm cung
    • 1999, Trần Văn Quý, chapter 22, in Đối thoại sử học, NXB Thanh Niên, page 365:
      Ông làm tiên phong dẹp yên cung cấm năm Mậu Thân 1788)[sic] […]
      He was in the vanguard of the pacification of the forbidden city in 1788 […]
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