bất cốc
Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 不穀
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓət̚˧˦ kəwk͡p̚˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓək̚˦˧˥ kəwk͡p̚˦˧˥]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓək̚˦˥ kəwk͡p̚˦˥]
Noun
bất cốc
- (obsolete, Chinese fiction, humble, by an East Asian monarch) I/me
- Late 4th century BCE, Zuozhuan; 1995 Vietnamese translation by Phan Kỳ Nam; 2016, English translation by Durrant, Li, & Schaberg
- Nếu công tử trở vế nước Tấn thì sẽ báo đáp bất cốc như thế nào?
- If you, the noble son, were to return to the domain of Jin, how would you repay me, the deficient one?
- Nếu công tử trở vế nước Tấn thì sẽ báo đáp bất cốc như thế nào?
- Late 4th century BCE, Zuozhuan; 1995 Vietnamese translation by Phan Kỳ Nam; 2016, English translation by Durrant, Li, & Schaberg
See also
- trẫm
- cô
- quả nhân