tứ
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tu"
Vietnamese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Romanization
[edit]tứ
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 四 (“four”)
Usage notes
[edit]- Like all Sino-Vietnamese numerals smaller than triệu (“million”), the "standard" reading tứ itself is never used as a cardinal number (for counting, etc.), where native numerals are used instead; its use therefore is restricted to compounds.
- bốn căn nhà (never *tứ/tư căn nhà) ― four houses
- However, the variant tư is used in titles (e.g. chú tư) and in forming numerals bigger than 10.
- bốn mươi tư ― forty-four
- Comparing to Chinese and other Sino-Xenic languages, there is little to no taboo regarding the number "four" (tetraphobia) in Vietnamese. In fact, tứ/tư is actually one of the few Sino-Vietnamese numerals that enjoy usages outside of fixed compounds, and the one of the two Sino-Vietnamese items (along không (“zero”)) that had penetrated into the (lower) cardinal counting system, where it coexists with native bốn.
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Romanization
[edit]tứ
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 思 (“thought”)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Romanization
[edit]tứ
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 肆
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Romanization
[edit]tứ
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 賜