đẳng

See also: đang, đáng, đắng, đảng, Đảng, and Đặng

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaŋ˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaŋ˧˨]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaŋ˨˩˦]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 等 (“rank, grade”).

Noun

đẳng

(only in compounds) rank; grade; class

Derived terms

cao đẳng
đẳng cấp

Etymology 2

Contraction of đằng + the demonstrative ấy (“that”) in the southern dialects, with the latter manifested as the hỏi tone after monosyllabification.

Pronoun

đẳng

(Southern Vietnam, colloquial) that side; that place; that way

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