nhân sư

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Vietnamese[edit]

Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:

nhân sư

Etymology[edit]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 人 (“human”) and 獅 (“lion”).

Pronunciation[edit]

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɲən˧˧ sɨ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ɲəŋ˧˧ ʂɨ˧˧] ~ [ɲəŋ˧˧ sɨ˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɲəŋ˧˧ ʂɨ˧˧] ~ [ɲəŋ˧˧ sɨ˧˧]

Noun[edit]

(classifier con) nhân sư

(mythology) sphinx

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Sino-Vietnamese words with uncreated Han etymology