Kinh Lễ

Vietnamese

In the book, Sơ học vấn tân 初學問津 (1888), Kinh Lễ is written as 經礼 in the chữ Nôm gloss.

Etymology

kinh +‎ Lễ, calque of Chinese 禮經 / 礼经 (Lễ kinh), following the head-initial structure of Vietnamese, instead of head-final in the original language.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kïŋ˧˧ le˦ˀ˥]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ lej˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ lej˨˩˦]

Proper noun

Kinh Lễ

1. (literature) The Book of Rites or Classic of Rites (a classic Confucian text describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty)

Coordinate terms

Tứ thư Ngũ kinh (四書五經, “Four Books and Five Classics”)

Tứ thư (四書, “Four Books”)

• Đại Học (大學, “Great Learning”)
• Trung Dung (中庸, “Doctrine of the Mean”)
• Luận Ngữ (論語, “Analects”)
• Mạnh Tử (孟子, “Mencius”)

Ngũ kinh (五經, “Five Classics”)

• Kinh Thi (經詩, “Classic of Poetry”)
• Kinh Thư (經書, “Book of Documents”)
• Kinh Lễ (經禮, “Book of Rites”)
• Kinh Dịch (經易, “I Ching”)
• Kinh Xuân Thu (經春秋, “Spring and Autumn Annals”)