Lã Phụng Tiên

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sense 1: Sino-Vietnamese word from 呂, 奉 and 先.

Sense 2 is a Phono-semantic matching of French La Fontaine, based on the existing sense #1.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laː˦ˀ˥ fʊwŋ͡m˧˨ʔ tiən˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laː˧˨ fʊwŋ͡m˨˩ʔ tiəŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [laː˨˩˦ fʊwŋ͡m˨˩˨ tiəŋ˧˧]

Proper noun

Lã Phụng Tiên

1. (historical) Lü Fengxian, the courtesy name of Lü Bu, a Chinese military general during the Eastern Han dynasty.
2. (now dated in Vietnam) La Fontaine, especially the French writer Jean de La Fontaine.