Kinh Thư

Vietnamese

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

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Kinh Thơ

Etymology

kinh +‎ Thư, calque of Chinese 書經 / 书经 (Thư kinh), following the head-initial structure of Vietnamese, instead of head-final in the original language.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kïŋ˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɨn˧˧ tʰɨ˧˧]

Proper noun

Kinh Thư • (經書)

1. (literature) the Book of Documents (a collection of documents and speeches alleged to have been written by rulers and officials of the early Zhou Dynasty and before)

   Synonym: Thượng Thư

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”)