thủ khoa

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Sino-Vietnamese word from and .

Pronunciation

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  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰu˧˩ xwaː˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰʊw˧˨ kʰwaː˧˧] ~ [tʰʊw˧˨ xwaː˧˧] invalid IPA characters (][)
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰʊw˨˩˦ kʰwaː˧˧] ~ [tʰʊw˨˩˦ xwaː˧˧] invalid IPA characters (][)

Noun

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thủ khoa

  1. a title given to the scholar who achieved the highest score on the Confucian court examination during the Đại Việt period