chữ mềm

Vietnamese

Etymology

chữ (“character”) +‎ mềm (“soft”). Coined as both a counterpart to chữ cứng (“katakana, "hard characters"”) and because hiragana look "softer" since they derived from cursive phonograms.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ mem˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɨ˧˨ mem˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [cɨ˨˩˦ mem˨˩]

Noun

chữ mềm

1. hiragana

See also

• chữ cứng