hồ Hoàn Kiếm

== Vietnamese == === Etymology === hồ (“lake”) +‎ hoàn (“to return”) +‎ kiếm (“sword”), from the legend in which Lê Lợi returned the sword he borrowed from the Golden Turtle God after defeating Ming invaders. The turtle god is, of course, fictional, but there is an actual symbolic turtle in the lake. === Pronunciation === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ho˨˩ hwaːn˨˩ kiəm˧˦] (Huế) IPA(key): [how˦˩ hwaːŋ˦˩ kiəm˦˧˥] (Saigon) IPA(key): [how˨˩ waːŋ˨˩ kim˦˥] === Proper noun === hồ Hoàn Kiếm Hoàn Kiếm Lake (in Hanoi, Vietnam) Synonym: Hồ Gươm