chồng

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕəwŋ͡m˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕəwŋ͡m˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [cəwŋ͡m˨˩]

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From Middle Vietnamese chào᷄, from Proto-Vietic *p-ʄoːŋ, *ɟoːŋ. Compare Nghệ An/Hà Tĩnh dialects nhôông, Mlabri ɟioŋ ("father"), Khmu joŋ ("man").

• (North Central Vietnam) nhôông, nhông

chồng • (𫯰, 𫯳)

1. husband

   lấy chồng ― (of a woman) to get married

   bố/mẹ chồng ― husband's father/mother

• In vợ chồng (“wife and husband”), cô chú (“paternal aunt and her husband”), cô cậu (“you girls and boys”), dì dượng (“maternal aunt and her husband; stepmother and stepfather”), the words for females always come first. In most other phrases, the words for males usually come first, except in certain poetic contexts (e.g. mẹ cha (“mum and dad”) as opposed to the usual cha mẹ (“dad and mum”)).

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 重 (SV: trùng).

chồng • (𠽚, 𥔧, 𨤯)

1. to stack up

chồng

1. a stack