银行
yín háng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 銀行
A bank: the place where you keep, withdraw, exchange and borrow money.
Nơi gửi tiền, rút tiền, đổi tiền và vay tiền.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “ngân hàng” = 銀行 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “ngân hàng” (ngan-hang). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “银行” mean?
A bank: the place where you keep, withdraw, exchange and borrow money. Literally: silver firm
Is “银行” formal or informal?
银行 is generally neutral.