truyện

== Vietnamese == === Etymology === Sino-Vietnamese word from 傳 (“story”), from Middle Chinese 傳 (MC drjwenH). Cognate with Mandarin 傳 / 传 (zhuàn) and Cantonese 傳 / 传 (zyun6). An alternative reading, Middle Chinese 傳 (trjwenH), yields the unattested *truyến which is listed in Thiều Chửu's dictionary. Doublet of chuyện, truyền, chuyền, and đồn. === Pronunciation === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕwiən˧˨ʔ] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʈwiəŋ˨˩ʔ] (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʈ⁽ʷ⁾iəŋ˨˩˨] === Noun === (classifier cuốn, quyển) truyện synonym of chuyện (“story; tale”) Truyện Kiều ― The Tale of Kiều truyện ngắn ― short story truyện cười ― funny story truyện phim ― film script truyện thơ ― narrative poem (chiefly in compounds) biography Synonyms: (literary) truyện kí, kí tự truyện ― autobiography novel truyện tranh; tranh truyện ― an illustrated storybook, a comic book, a graphic novel ==== Usage notes ==== Not to be confused with chuyện. In certain compounds, such as câu chuyện and hỏi chuyện, the forms with chuyện are currently the prestige forms, although the forms with truyện (câu truyện, etc.), which are often proscribed against presently, also appeared in the works of many past writers. ==== Derived terms ====