khôn

== Vietnamese == === Pronunciation === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [xon˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kʰoŋ˧˧] (Saigon) IPA(key): [kʰoŋ˧˧] === Etymology 1 === ==== Alternative forms ==== (North Central Vietnam) khun (no vowel lowering) ==== Adjective ==== khôn • (坤) wise; smart clever; street-smart sapient ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 困 (“difficult”, SV: khốn), with the commonly seen Vietnamese tone A vs. MC tone C correspondence. ==== Adverb ==== khôn (literary, before verb) impossibly nỗi buồn/giận khôn nguôi ― everlasting sadness/anger (literally, “unfadable sadness/anger”) Late 19th century, Nguyễn Khuyến, “Bạn Đến Chơi Nhà (My Friend's Come Visiting My Home)” ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 3 === Sino-Vietnamese word from 坤. ==== Noun ==== khôn trigram 8 hexagram 2 (䷁) ===== Derived terms =====