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tầng

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Vietnamese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (SV: tằng).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tầng

  1. (architecture) story; floor
    tầng 1the first floor (either (Northern Vietnam) the ground floor, or (Southern Vietnam) the floor immediately above it)
    tầng trệt(Southern Vietnam) the ground floor
    tầng hầman underground level
    tầng lửnga full-fledged mezzanine, as opposed to a gác lửng which is just a platform used in small flats
  2. (by extension) vertical level
    giường hai tầngdouble bunk bed
    18 tầng địa ngục18 levels of hell

Usage notes

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  • 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

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  • (story): lầu (Southern Vietnam)

Derived terms

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