thứ tư
Vietnamese
Etymology
From thứ (“-th”) + tư (“four”). In the sense of “fourth”, sometimes bốn is used instead of tư.
As a name of weekday, calque of Portuguese quarta-feira (“Wednesday”, literally “fourth weekday”).
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰɨ˧˦ tɨ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰɨ˨˩˦ tɨ˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰɨ˦˥ tɨ˧˧]
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