Vietnamese word
lục bát
Hà-Nội[lʊwk͡p̚˧˨ʔ ʔɓaːt̚˧˦]Huế[lʊwk͡p̚˨˩ʔ ʔɓaːk̚˦˧˥]Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon)[lʊwk͡p̚˨˩˨ ʔɓaːk̚˦˥]
In your course · Chapter 57
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B2
Meanings
- six-eight verse; native partner: thơ sáu tám (formal, Sino-Vietnamese)
- a traditional Vietnamese poetry with alternating lines of 6 and 8 syllables, whereby the last syllable of a 6-syllable line rhymes with the 6th syllable of the very next 8-syllable line, and the last syllable of an 8-syllable line rhymes with the last syllable of the very next 6-syllable line; the rhyming also has to conform to the matching of trắc or bằng tones
- custard apple (Annona reticulata)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)