dấu hỏi

Vietnamese

Etymology

dấu (“diacritic”) +‎ hỏi (from the fact that the word hỏi has the tone written with a hook above)

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zəw˧˦ hɔj˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jəw˨˩˦ hɔj˧˨]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jəw˦˥ hɔj˨˩˦]

Noun

dấu hỏi

(typography) hook above, diacritic used to write the hỏi tone in Vietnamese orthography
(linguistics) hỏi tone, dipping tone

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