trăng hoa

Vietnamese

Etymology

From trăng (“moon”) +‎ hoa (“flower”), calque of Chinese 花月 (hoa nguyệt), as in 風花雪月 / 风花雪月 (phong hoa tuyết nguyệt, literally “wind, flowers, snow and the moon”). Compare trăng gió.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕaŋ˧˧ hwaː˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʈaŋ˧˧ hwaː˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʈaŋ˧˧ waː˧˧]

Adjective

trăng hoa

  1. philandering
    Synonym: trăng gió
    thói trăng hoa ― philandering disposition

Usage notes

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.