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) | |
|---|---|
| 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
Information about Vietnamese | Chữ-nôm script | Quốc âm tân tự script | Phrases | Colours | Numbers | Time | Dates | Family words | Tower of Babel | Books about Vietnamese on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk [affilate links]
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