Vietnamese word
đô thị
Hà-Nội[ʔɗo˧˧ tʰi˧˨ʔ]Huế[ʔɗow˧˧ tʰɪj˨˩ʔ]Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon)[ʔɗow˧˧ tʰɪj˨˩˨]
In your course · Chapter 46
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B2
Meanings
- urban area (formal, Sino-Vietnamese)
- a city, particularly an administrative division or urban area with a particular or designated size, population and wealth; in Vietnam, a đô thị simply refers to provincial capitals or thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương, while a khu đô thị refers to technological hubs full of high-income earners and corporate/apartment buildings
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