Words for family members and other relatives in Vietnamese (tiếng việt), an Austroasiatic language spoken mainly in Vietnam.
The characters in [brackets] are in the Chữ-nôm script [𡨸喃], which was used to write Vietnamese from the 13th century to the early 20th century, and which is still studied and taught.
Key to abbreviations: NV = Northern Vietnamese, SV = Southern Vietnamese
Vietnamese (tiếng việt) | |
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family | gia đình [家庭] |
relative | họ hàng |
parents | bố mẹ [𢂞母], ba má |
father | cha [𤕔]; bố [𢂞] (NV); ba (SV) |
mother | mẹ [母] (NV); má (SV) |
children | con cái [𡥵] |
son | con trai [𡥵𤳇] |
daughter | con gái [𡥵𡛔] |
husband | chồng [重] |
wife | vợ [𡞕/𡢼] |
brother | anh [偀] - older brother em [俺] - younger brother |
sister | chi [姉] - older sister em [㛪] - younger sister |
uncle | bác [伯] (trai) - elder brother of parents chú [注] - father's younger brother cậu [舅] - mother's brother dượng - mother's younger sister's husband |
aunt | bác [伯] (gái) - elder sister of parents cô [姑] - father's younger sister dì [姨] - mother's younger sister thím [婶] - father's younger brother's wife mợ - mother's brother's wife |
cousin | anh họ [偀戶] - older male cousin chị họ [姉戶] - older female cousin em họ [腌戶] - younger cousin |
nephew | cháu trai |
niece | cháu gái |
grandfather | ông nội, ông [翁] (paternal) ông ngoại [翁外], ông [翁] (maternal) |
grandmother | bà nội, bà [婆] (paternal) bà ngoại, bà [婆外] (maternal) |
grandson | cháu trai [𡥙𤳇] |
granddaughter | chau gai [𡥙𡛔] |
father-in-law | cha chồng [𤕔重] ba vợ [𢂞𡞕] cha chồng |
mother-in-law | mẹ chồng [母重] mẹ vợ [母𡞕] nhạc mẫu |
brother-in-law | anh rể [偀婿] anh em chồng [偀俺重] anh em rể [偀俺婿] anh em vợ [偀俺𡞕] |
sister-in-law | chị chồng [姉重] chị dâu [姉妯]; chị vợ [姉𡞕] em dâu [㛪𡞕] |
son-in-law | con trai [𡥵𤳇] |
daughter-in-law | con dâu [𡥵𡞕] |
Some information provided by Lesley Housten C Kibat
Hear Vietnamese family words:
Information about Vietnamese family words
https://seahorseviet.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/vietnamese-family-introduction/
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vietnamese/Family
http://www.allysatis.org/vocabulary/words.php?lang=14&angaff=3&dcatevoca=1
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