"chu nom" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Vietnamese chữ Nôm.",
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          "ref": "1997, Wm. C. Hannas, Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, page 83",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Kevin Bowen, Ba Chung Nguyen, Bruce Weigl, editors, Mountain River, page xxiv",
          "text": "To write a vernacular word, Chu Nom used two Chinese ideograms—one to indicate the meaning, the other the sound.",
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          "ref": "2016, Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Penguin, published 2017, page 106",
          "text": "[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?’",
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        "A writing system formerly used for Vietnamese, based on Chinese characters."
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        "(historical) A writing system formerly used for Vietnamese, based on Chinese characters."
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          "word": "chữ nôm"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zìnán",
          "sense": "writing system",
          "word": "字喃"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "nánzì",
          "sense": "writing system",
          "word": "喃字"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "writing system",
          "word": "チュノム"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jjeunom",
          "sense": "writing system",
          "word": "쯔놈"
        },
        {
          "alt": "字喃",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "writing system",
          "word": "chữ Nôm"
        }
      ],
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      "ipa": "/t͡ʃuː ˈnoʊm/",
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  "word": "chu nom"
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    {
      "word": "chữ nôm"
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    {
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zìnán",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "字喃"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nánzì",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "喃字"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "チュノム"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jjeunom",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "쯔놈"
    },
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      "alt": "字喃",
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      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "chữ Nôm"
    }
  ],
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