dấu sắc

Vietnamese

Etymology

dấu (“diacritic”) +‎ sắc (from the fact that the word sắc has the tone written with an acute accent)

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zəw˧˦ sak̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jəw˨˩˦ ʂak̚˦˧˥] ~ [jəw˨˩˦ sak̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jəw˦˥ ʂak̚˦˥] ~ [jəw˦˥ sak̚˦˥]

Noun

dấu sắc

1. (linguistics) acute accent
2. (linguistics) sắc tone, rising tone