mùi vị

Vietnamese

Etymology

mùi (“smell, odour”) +‎ vị (“taste”). Both are borrowings from Chinese 味 (“smell, odour; taste”), the first non-Sino-Vietnamese, and the latter Sino-Vietnamese.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [muj˨˩ vi˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [muj˦˩ vɪj˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [muj˨˩ vɪj˨˩˨] ~ [muj˨˩ jɪj˨˩˨]
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Noun

mùi vị

  1. taste, scent
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