tầng

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tang"

Vietnamese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 層 (SV: tằng).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

tầng

  1. (architecture) a story; a floor; a level
    tầng 1 ― the first floor (either (Northern Vietnam) the ground floor, or (Southern Vietnam) the floor immediately above it)
    tầng trệt ― (Southern Vietnam) the ground floor
    tầng hầm ― an underground level
    tầng lửng ― a full-fledged mezzanine, as opposed to a gác lửng which is just a platform used in small flats
    18 tầng địa ngục ― 18 levels of hell

Usage notes[edit]

  • In Southern Vietnamese, the ground floor is called trệt and each floor above it is a lầu numbered from lầu 1. By contrast, in Northern and Central Vietnamese, floors are called tầng, the ground floor is numbered as tầng 1, and tầng 0 technically refers to a crawl space.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (story): lầu (Southern Vietnam)

Derived terms[edit]

Derived terms
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=tầng&oldid=76187243"