Hanoi

From Vietnamese Hà Nội, which is a Sino-Vietnamese word, 河內.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːˈnɔɪ/, /hæˈnɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Hanoi

1. The capital city of Vietnam.
   • 1959 December, “Talking of Trains: Five trains to Hanoi”, in Trains Illustrated, page 579:

     If you have seventeen days and £168 to spare, can satisfy the Iron Curtain authorities of your bona fides and your taste runs to marathon rail travel, you can now board the "Night Ferry" at Victoria and ride across the whole of Europe and Asia to Hanoi, capital of North Viet-Nam, changing carriage only at Brussels, Berlin, Moscow and Pekin.

   • 1999, McCain, John, Faith of My Fathers‎, New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 99-13496, OCLC 951357288, page 285:

     YOUR SON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHEN SHOT DOWN IN HANOI BUT HAS MADE FINE RECOVERY AND NOW, ACCORDING THIS GROUP, LOOKS "QUITE WELL." HE HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE AND HAS STOOD UP MANFULLY AGAINST ALL EFFORTS TO PERSUADE HIM TO UTTER TRAITOROUS STATEMENTS.

2. (metonymically) the Vietnamese government.

• Hanoian
• Tower of Hanoi

• Nihoa

Hanoi

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

• IPA^(key): /haˈnɔʏ̯/

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• Homophone: ha noi

Hanoi n (proper noun, genitive Hanois or (optionally with an article) Hanoi)

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

Hanoi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ハノイ

Borrowed from Vietnamese Hà Nội, from Chinese 河內／河内.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.nɔj/

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• Rhymes: -anɔj
• Syllabification: Ha‧noi

Hanoi n (indeclinable)

1. Hanoi (the capital city of Vietnam)

• Hanoi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Hanoi in Polish dictionaries at PWN