Where does “chỉnh sửa” come from?

chỉnh sửa (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese chỉnh, from Middle Chinese 整.

chỉnh sửa (Vietnamese): to revise; to correct; to modify generally speaking

Definitions

  1. to revise; to correct; to modify generally speaking

Ancestry of “chỉnh sửa”, step by step

chỉnh sửa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese chỉnh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesechỉnhbe correct; to correct, to edit; to lecture, to...
2Middle Chinese

via Vietnamese sửa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesesửato repair, to correct, to put right
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