công hầu bá tử nam

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Vietnamese

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 Chinese nobility on Wikipedia

Etymology

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Sino-Vietnamese word from (duke), (marquis), (count) and (viscount), from Chinese 公侯伯子男. Compare Japanese 公侯伯子男 (kōkōhakushidan). The correspondence between the Chinese and European ranks were wholly accidental, but were institutionalized in Qing China and Meiji Japan.

Noun

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công hầu tử nam

  1. (collective) the five ranks of nobility in feudal China
  2. (collective) the five ranks of peerage in feudal Europe
    Meronyms: bá tước, công tước, hầu tước, nam tước, tử tước