dấu nặng

Vietnamese

Etymology

dấu (diacritic) +‎ nặng (from the fact that the word nặng has the tone written with a dot below)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dấu nặng

  1. (typography) dot below, diacritic used to write the nặng tone in Vietnamese orthography
  2. (linguistics) nặng tone, low glottalized tone