Where does “ý tại ngôn ngoại” come from?

ý tại ngôn ngoại (Vietnamese) comes from Middle Chinese 言.

ý tại ngôn ngoại (Vietnamese): implied intention, implicit meaning, that which one reads between the lines

Definitions

  1. implied intention, implicit meaning, that which one reads between the lines

Ancestry of “ý tại ngôn ngoại”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Chinese
Every word from Middle Chinese