tầng
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tang"
Vietnamese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 層 (SV: tằng).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tầng
- (architecture) story; floor
- tầng 1 ― the first floor (either (Northern Vietnam) the ground floor, or (Southern Vietnam) the floor immediately above it)
- tầng trệt ― (Southern Vietnam) the ground floor
- tầng hầm ― an underground level
- tầng lửng ― a full-fledged mezzanine, as opposed to a gác lửng which is just a platform used in small flats
- (by extension) vertical level
- giường hai tầng ― double bunk bed
- 18 tầng địa ngục ― 18 levels of hell
Usage notes
[edit]- In Southern Vietnamese, the ground floor is called trệt and each floor above it is a lầu numbered from lầu 1. By contrast, in Northern and Central Vietnamese, floors are called tầng, the ground floor is numbered as tầng 1, and tầng 0 technically refers to a crawl space.
Synonyms
[edit]- (story): lầu (Southern Vietnam)
