tự cung tự cấp

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 自供自給.

The term shared with Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, 自給自足 / 自给自足 (tự cấp tự túc), is attested but obsolete in Vietnamese in everyday life. It seems to persist mainly in Marxist literature.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tɨ˧˨ʔ kʊwŋ͡m˧˧ tɨ˧˨ʔ kəp̚˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tɨ˨˩ʔ kʊwŋ͡m˧˧ tɨ˨˩ʔ kəp̚˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tɨ˨˩˨ kʊwŋ͡m˧˧ tɨ˨˩˨ kəp̚˦˥]

Verb

tự cung tự cấp

  1. to be self-sufficient
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