oẳn tù tì
Vietnamese
FWOTD – 10 December 2019
Alternative forms
- uỳn tù tì, oằn tù tì
- xù xi, xù xì
Etymology
Derived from English one, two, three.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwan˧˩ tu˨˩ ti˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwaŋ˧˨ tʊw˦˩ tɪj˦˩]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [(ʔ)waŋ˨˩˦ tʊw˨˩ tɪj˨˩]
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)
Noun
oẳn tù tì
- (games) rock paper scissors
- Synonyms: kéo búa bao, uyn đơ toa, uỳn
- Oẳn tù tì, ra cái gì, ra cái này
- Rock paper scissors, what I got, I got this.
- 2011, Lê Đức Quang, “Oẳn tù tì”, in Dịu dàng ơi!, Công ty Văn hóa Hương Trang:
- Lúc cưới nhau rồi, anh chị vẫn giữ thói quen trò chơi cũ. Trưa cũng như chiều, ăn cơm xong anh chị lại chơi oẳn tù tì, ai thua rửa chén, ai thắng ngồi gác chân cười ha hả trêu tức người thua.
- They still kept the habit of playing the game [of rock paper scissors] after they got married. After both lunch and dinner they would play a game of rock paper scissors, and whoever lost would wash the dishes, teased by the winner who would laugh and sit with their feet up.
Usage notes
- The three items are variously known as đá (“rock”)/búa (“hammer”), kéo (“scissors”) and giấy (“paper”)/bao (“bag”).
- A shorter version of the chant is also used in Vietnam using the native Vietnamese numbers một, hai, ba.
Verb
oẳn tù tì
- (games) to play rock paper scissors