How to pronounce Thị
Vietnamese · middle name
Hà NộiIPA: [tʰi˧˨ʔ]
- Tht + breath
- ịee, low
Voice: synthetic.
Tone
Thị
One syllable, with the heavy tone (the dot under the i): low, then cut short.
The common mistake
- Not
thigh - Not
thee
But tee, low and clipped
Origin and meaning
From the Chinese character 氏. For generations it was the usual middle name for Vietnamese women; today it simply marks a name as female, and younger women often leave it out.
Meaning: “clan, family”
Variants and namesakes
- In the south (Saigon)
- [tʰɪj˨˩˨]: the vowel opens and the tone dips, then rises.
- For men: Văn
- The middle name many men carry in the same place.
The video
Sources
- Syllables
- en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thị
- The common mistake
- Worked out from the IPA (Wiktionary): aspirated [tʰ], not English th.
- How the name is used
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_name
- Variants and namesakes
- en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thị (Saigon IPA; male equivalent Văn)
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