Free tools / Pronunciation Vietnamese food How to pronounce bánh xèo bánh xèo South · Sài Gòn North · Hà Nội
Without marks banh xeo
Syllables 2 · bánh · xèo
Tone bánh: sắc (acute accent · high rising) · xèo: huyền (grave accent · low falling)
Meaning Vietnamese savory pancake bánh xèo, 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
vowel a + final nh « nhờ » = rhyme anh consonant b « bờ » + rhyme anh = no tone banh no tone banh + tone sắc = word bánh Syllable 2 · xèo
vowel e + final u « u » = rhyme eo consonant x « xờ » + rhyme eo = no tone xeo no tone xeo + tone huyền = word xèo Spelled the Vietnamese school way a nhờ anh bờ anh banh sắc bánh — e u eo xờ eo xeo huyền xèo
bánh xèo Vietnamese savory pancake
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
banh no tone ▶︎ Every tone
banh ngang ball bành huyền elephant howdah, saddle bánh sắc your word · cake, pastry bảnh hỏi smart, well-dressed, cool bãnh ngã possible syllable, no word bạnh nặng possible syllable, no word Syllable 2 · xèo
xeo no tone ▶︎ Every tone
xeo ngang possible syllable, no word xèo huyền your word · limp, flabby xéo sắc slanting xẻo hỏi to slice off xẽo ngã small brook, rivulet, creek xẹo nặng slanted, oblique Southern or Northern? Same sound, different spelling: the accent changes the sound, never the written word.
Read bánh xèo? 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
đánh to hit, to beat tránh to avoid cánh wing gánh to carry (on a shoulder pole) thánh saint, holy nhánh branch (of a tree, organization) chánh chief, main sánh to compare Like xèo
nghèo poor mèo cat chèo to row trèo to climb đèo mountain pass kèo rafter bèo duckweed tèo to die (informal) 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
Quick answers How do you pronounce bánh xèo? Block by block: a → nh → anh → b → banh → sắc → bánh · e → u → eo → x → xeo → huyền → xèo. Tone: bánh: sắc (acute accent · high rising) · xèo: huyền (grave accent · low falling). Read each block aloud, then compare with the recording, in a Southern or a Northern voice.
What tone is bánh xèo? bánh: sắc (acute accent · high rising) · xèo: huyền (grave accent · low falling)
Is bánh xèo said differently in the South and the North? South · Sài Gòn: x = s. North · Hà Nội: x = s.
What does bánh xèo mean? Vietnamese savory pancake
Where this comes from The step-by-step build is the app's Microscope, computed by our engine for each word, not drawn by hand. Every word and meaning comes from our 19,894-word dictionary (English, French and German meanings). Sounds: AI voices (vietsyllables.com), Southern or Northern, joined syllable by syllable, hosted with the author's permission. Any word, in your accent In the app, every word of the dictionary opens in the Microscope, and your own words become the anchors you read with.
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