văn xuôi

Vietnamese

Etymology

văn (“language; writing”) +‎ xuôi (“flowy”), perhaps from the notion that prose "flows" easier than poetry (which is more restrictive in terms of syllable counts and rhymes)

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [van˧˧ suəj˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [vaŋ˧˧ suj˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [vaŋ˧˧ suj˧˧] ~ [jaŋ˧˧ suj˧˧]

Noun

văn xuôi

  1. (literature) prose

See also

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