tấn

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tən˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [təŋ˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [təŋ˦˥]

tấn

1. a tonne (1000 kilograms)

• tạ (“100 kg”)
• yến (“10 kg”)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 進; this is the Southern form. Doublet of tiến, the Northern form.

In current written Vietnamese, only three compounds with this form are in common use: tấn tới (“progressive, advancing”), tấn công (“to attack”) and tấn phong (“to promote to a higher position”); other compounds, although abundantly attested in many texts are now replaced by the Northern form tiến in the speech of most Southerners.

tấn

1. (only in compounds) to advance; to go forward