also: ベトナム
Refers to the country Vietnam. The katakana form ベトナム is standard; the kanji form 越南 is an ateji spelling and is rarely used.
See also: ベトナム
越南 is a kanji spelling for Vietnam.
Vietnamese food is very delicious.
Vietnamese (language)
Standard modern spelling for Vietnam, written in katakana as a foreign place name.
Ateji spelling using kanji for their phonetic values; rarely used in modern Japanese.
Ateji spelling with the gikun reading ベトナム; very rare and mainly historical.
From Vietnamese 'Việt Nam', via English or French. The kanji spelling 越南 is ateji, using characters for their sounds rather than meanings.