tác vụ

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 作務, composed of 作 (“to do, to work”) and 務 (“affair, business”), happened to have partially phono-semantic matching with the word task in computing sense.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [taːk̚˧˦ vu˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [taːk̚˦˧˥ vʊw˨˩ʔ]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [taːk̚˦˥ vʊw˨˩˨] ~ [taːk̚˦˥ jʊw˨˩˨]

Noun

tác vụ

1. operation, task
2. (computing) task