mười rằm giăng náu, mười sáu giăng treo

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Meaning · English

On the fifteenth the moon hides, on the sixteenth it hangs — the lunar month's choreography, named night by night.

Literally: fifteenth: moon lurks; sixteenth: moon hangs
Sources & notes

Discovered via Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918; public domain, via vi.wikisource); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Attested in Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918). Definition is an original editorial synthesis, not copied from the source.

Common questions

What does “mười rằm giăng náu, mười sáu giăng treo” mean?

On the fifteenth the moon hides, on the sixteenth it hangs — the lunar month's choreography, named night by night. Literally: fifteenth: moon lurks; sixteenth: moon hangs

Is “mười rằm giăng náu, mười sáu giăng treo” formal or informal?

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