Where does “xã hội đen” come from?
xã hội đen (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese xã hội, from Japanese 社会, from Middle Chinese 社會.
xã hội đen (Vietnamese): thugs
Definitions
- thugs
Ancestry of “xã hội đen”, step by step
xã hội đen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese xã hội
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | xã hội | society |
| 2 | Japanese | 社会 | society; a class, a world of a certain group |
| 3 | Middle Chinese | 社會 | — |
via Vietnamese đen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | đen | of the color black; dark; swarthy; unlucky;... |