Where does “dấu chấm than” come from?

dấu chấm than (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese thân, from Chinese 炭, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tal — charcoal; dust; ashes.

dấu chấm than (Vietnamese): an exclamation mark

Definitions

  1. an exclamation mark

Ancestry of “dấu chấm than”, step by step

dấu chấm than traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese thân

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesethânclose or even best; relative; pro-
2Chinese炭coal
3Proto-Sino-Tibetantalcharcoal; dust; ashes

via Vietnamese dấu chấm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesedấu chấma period; full stop; full point; dot (a kind of punctuation mark)
2Vietnamesedấumark, sign; diacritic; tone
3Proto-Vietick-toːʔtrace, footprint
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