xoan

Vietnamese

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xoan

Etymology

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Particularly: “Unlikely to be a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 橢 (“oval”, SV: thoa)? ‹th-› vs. ‹x-› correspondance is a thing but the coda comes from nowhere.”

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [swaːn˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [swaːŋ˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [s⁽ʷ⁾aːŋ˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) xoan • (春)

bead tree (Melia azedarach)

Adjective

xoan

oval-shaped
mặt trái xoan ― an oval-shaped face