giốc

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (SV: giác).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zəwk͡p̚˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [jəwk͡p̚˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [jəwk͡p̚˦˥]

Noun

giốc

  1. (music) the third note in the classic pentatonic scale[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dinh-hoa Nguyen (1995) “giốc”, in NTC's Vietnamese–English Dictionary, →ISBN, page 213