Hue

• Huế

From Vietnamese Huế.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhweɪ/
• enPR: hwā
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Hue

1. A port city in central Vietnam.

   Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.

   • [1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60:

     Trouble had been brewing for some time, and it burst into the open in the ancient capital city of Hué on May 8, 1963. On that day 8,000 to 10,000 Buddhists marched in protest against a government order banning parades and the display of Buddhist flags on Buddha's birthday.]

2. A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.

• HEU

From Middle High German huon, from Old High German huon, from Proto-West Germanic *hōn (“hen, chicken”). Cognate with German Huhn, Dutch hoen.

Hue f (diminutive Hüendli)

1. (Uri) chicken (animal)

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 29.

• Hué, Huê

Borrowed from Vietnamese Huế.

Hue f

1. Hue (a province and city in Vietnam)