Where does “rẻ tiền” come from?

rẻ tiền (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tiền, from Chinese 錢.

rẻ tiền (Vietnamese): cheap

Definitions

  1. cheap

Ancestry of “rẻ tiền”, step by step

rẻ tiền traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese tiền

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetiềnmoney; pre-
2Chinese錢—

via Vietnamese rẻ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameserẻcheap, inexpensive
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