tiếng Hoa

Vietnamese

Etymology

tiếng (“language”) +‎ Hoa.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tiəŋ˧˦ hwaː˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tiəŋ˦˧˥ hwaː˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tiəŋ˦˥ waː˧˧]

Noun

tiếng Hoa • (㗂華)

  1. the Chinese language of the Hoa people
  2. (specifically) the Mandarin variety of that language spoken by the aforementioned people
    Tuyển nhân viên phiên dịch tiếng Hoa.
    We're hiring Mandarin interpreters.
  3. (colloquial) synonym of tiếng Quảng Đông (“Cantonese”)
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