Vietnamese food

How to pronounce bánh canh

bánh canh
Without marks
banh canh
Syllables
2 · bánh · canh
Tone
bánh: sắc (acute accent · high rising) · canh: ngang (no mark · level)
Meaning
thick noodle soup
Frequency
No. 10,573 among the most used words

bánh canh, block by block

Each line adds one piece. Read it aloud, then tap a card to compare: a consonant plays the way it is spelled at school (ph = “phờ”).

Syllable 1 · bánh

Syllable 2 · canh

Spelled the Vietnamese school waya nhờ anh bờ anh banh sắc bánh — a nhờ anh cờ anh canh

bánh canhthick noodle soup

Every tone

The same letters without a tone (the root), then with each tone the spelling allows: some are words, some only possible syllables.

Syllable 1 · bánh

Syllable 2 · canh

Southern or Northern?

South · Sài Gòn

said as written

North · Hà Nội

said as written

Same sound, different spelling: the accent changes the sound, never the written word.

Read bánh canh? Then you can read these

Same rhyme, same tone: only the first consonant changes. That's how the app teaches reading, from words you know to every word that sounds like them.

Like bánh

  • đánhto hit, to beat
  • tránhto avoid
  • cánhwing
  • gánhto carry (on a shoulder pole)
  • thánhsaint, holy
  • nhánhbranch (of a tree, organization)
  • chánhchief, main
  • sánhto compare

Like canh

  • anholder brother
  • nhanhfast, quick
  • xanhblue, green
  • tranhpainting
  • danhname
  • thanhsound, tone
  • chanhlime
  • banhball

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Spelling to know

nh / ch at the end

The finals NH and CH only come after a, ê and i (anh, ếch, ích). After ê and i, always NH / CH, never ng / c (bệnh, ích). After a, both exist and make different words (anh / ang, ách / ác). In the South, -nh sounds like -n (anh = /an/).

anh · bánh · ích · bệnh · sạch

c or k?

Same /k/ sound. Write K before i, e, ê, y, and C before every other vowel.

kẹo · kêu · kỳ · cá · cơm · con

Quick answers

How do you pronounce bánh canh?

Block by block: a → nh → anh → b → banh → sắc → bánh · a → nh → anh → c → canh. Tone: bánh: sắc (acute accent · high rising) · canh: ngang (no mark · level). Read each block aloud, then compare with the recording, in a Southern or a Northern voice.

What tone is bánh canh?

bánh: sắc (acute accent · high rising) · canh: ngang (no mark · level)

Is bánh canh said differently in the South and the North?

Both accents say bánh canh as it is written.

What does bánh canh mean?

thick noodle soup

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