Meaning of chu nom | Babel Free

Definitions

A writing system formerly used for Vietnamese, based on Chinese characters.

historical, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Chữ nôm was known only by the 5 percent or less of Vietnam's educated population, who used it not as a primary medium but rather as an aid to learning Chinese and for recording folk literature.”

“To write a vernacular word, Chu Nom used two Chinese ideograms—one to indicate the meaning, the other the sound.”

“[P]olitical reforms along Western lines […] included […] developing modern science, agriculture, and commerce, and even creating a national writing system based on chu nom: ‘Have we not talented persons able to devise a script which will transcribe our national language?’”

CEFR level