tự vẫn

See also: tuvan, Tuvan, and tư vấn

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 自刎.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tɨ˧˨ʔ vən˦ˀ˥]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tɨ˨˩ʔ vəŋ˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tɨ˨˩˨ vəŋ˨˩˦] ~ [tɨ˨˩˨ jəŋ˨˩˦]

Verb

tự vẫn

  1. (original meaning) to commit suicide by cutting one's throat
  2. (literary, modern usage, may be prescribed as incorrect) to commit suicide; to take one's own life
    Synonyms: tự tử, tự sát
    nhảy lầu tự vẫn ― to commit suicide by jumping off a building
    treo cổ tự vẫn ― to commit suicide by hanging
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.