sông Hàn

Vietnamese

Etymology

sông (“river”) +‎ Cửa Hàn (“one of the old names of Đà Nẵng”). In the past, Hàn was written in chữ Hán as 瀚 (SV: hãn).

The eggcorn sense comes from confusion between Hán (漢, the character used for China/Han or the Han River in Korea) and Hàn (韓, the character used for the nation of (South) Korea).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [səwŋ͡m˧˧ haːn˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ haːŋ˦˩] ~ [səwŋ͡m˧˧ haːŋ˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ haːŋ˨˩] ~ [səwŋ͡m˧˧ haːŋ˨˩]

Proper noun

sông Hàn

  1. the Hàn River (a river in Da Nang, Vietnam)
  2. (informal) eggcorn of sông Hán (the Korean Han River)
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