người ngoài hành tinh

Vietnamese

Etymology

Literally “person from outside the planet”, erroneous calque of Chinese 外星人 (ngoại tinh nhân, literally “person from an ‘outside’ (another) planet”)

Pronunciation
  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ŋɨəj˨˩ ŋwaːj˨˩ hajŋ̟˨˩ tïŋ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ŋɨj˦˩ ŋwaːj˦˩ hɛɲ˦˩ tɨn˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ŋɨj˨˩ ŋwaːj˨˩ han˨˩ tɨn˧˧]

Noun

người ngoài hành tinh

  1. an extraterrestrial being; an alien

Synonyms
  • người ngoài Trái Đất

See also
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