dấu hỏi

Vietnamese

Etymology

dấu (“mark”) +‎ hỏi, literally “the mark of the word hỏi (“to ask”)”

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zəw˧˦ hɔj˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [jəw˨˩˦ hɔj˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [jəw˦˥ hɔj˨˩˦]

Noun

dấu hỏi

  1. the hook above (the diacritic representing the hỏi tone)
  2. (linguistics) hỏi tone, dipping tone
  3. synonym of dấu chấm hỏi (“question mark”)
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