Where does “giờ Tuất” come from?

giờ Tuất (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese giờ, from Middle Chinese 時.

giờ Tuất (Vietnamese): a period of time, from 7 PM to 9 PM

Definitions

  1. a period of time, from 7 PM to 9 PM

Ancestry of “giờ Tuất”, step by step

giờ Tuất traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese giờ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesegiờunit for specifying a point in time in terms of...
2Middle Chinese時—

via Vietnamese Tuất

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseTuấtthe eleventh earthly branch represented by the Dog
Every word from Middle Chinese 時 →Every word from Vietnamese giờ →