Vietnamese¶
vi, tier B, Tiếng Việt. 19.3 percent of 290 terms have an approved translation or a protected spelling. This measures terminology coverage, not completed prose review or publication approval.
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Use the English term until a proposed translation is approved, or when a translation is missing. A protected spelling stays unchanged. The fallback original term is the plain English phrase to translate when the term itself will not travel; the principles say how to use it. A draft English name still requires confirmation even if its spelling is protected here.
Select an English term for its definition and application context. The translator handoff explains how to propose changes.
The Vietnamese localization guide explains the reasoning behind the less obvious choices and the rules that apply to this language.
Names¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Vietnamese | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Illustrator | do-not-translate | ||
| app.fontographer.net | app.fontographer.net | do-not-translate | ||
| FLUM | FLUM | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| FontLab | FontLab | do-not-translate | ||
| fontlab (Python module) | fontlab (Python module) | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab 8 | FontLab 8 | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab 9 | FontLab 9 | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| Fontlab Ltd. | Fontlab Ltd. | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab Pass | FontLab Pass | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab Studio 5 | FontLab Studio 5 | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| fontlab.com | fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| Fontographer | Fontographer | do-not-translate | ||
| Fontographer.net | Fontographer.net | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| forum.fontlab.com | forum.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| GlyphRef | GlyphRef | do-not-translate | ||
| help.fontlab.com | help.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| help.vexy.art | help.vexy.art | do-not-translate | ||
| pass.fontlab.com | pass.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| Photofont | Photofont | do-not-translate | ||
| playlines.vexy.art | playlines.vexy.art | do-not-translate | ||
| Strokes Maker | Strokes Maker | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| studio.fontlab.com | studio.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| TransType 5 | TransType 5 | do-not-translate | ||
| TypeTool | TypeTool | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy | Vexy | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Lines | Vexy Lines | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Linestra | Vexy Linestra | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Playlines | Vexy Playlines | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Vextra | Vexy Vextra | do-not-translate |
Type design¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Vietnamese | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ascender | upward extension | ascender | proposed | Vietnamese typography writing keeps the loan (iDesign, DesignerVN, Mỹ thuật MS glossaries, nya.vn); glosses vary (phần vươn lên, nét xổ trên dòng, đường đỉnh) and none is established. |
| baseline | writing line | đường cơ sở | proposed | Apple (AppKit, Pages, Keynote), FontForge and most Vietnamese typography glossaries use đường cơ sở; đường gốc and đường nền are rarer. |
| bowl | round belly | bụng chữ | proposed | Vietnamese type-anatomy glossaries (Việt Chi Gỗ, Orion Creative) call the bowl bụng chữ; Apple's bát is the tableware. |
| cap height | capital-letter height | chiều cao chữ hoa | proposed | Orion Creative's anatomy glossary and nya.vn (đường đỉnh chữ hoa); chữ hoa is Apple's word for capitals. |
| character | ký tự | proposed | Apple, Adobe and Microsoft all use ký tự; kept distinct from glyph. | |
| contour | đường viền | proposed | FontForge vi and nya.vn's FontLab tutorials (over 500 uses) say đường viền. Đường bao would separate contour from outline but is barely attested. | |
| counter | enclosed white space | lòng trong | proposed | Mỹ thuật MS's type-anatomy course gives counter as lòng trong; Apple's bộ đếm is the counting device. Orion Creative's không gian trong is the longer alternative. |
| descender | downward extension | descender | proposed | Vietnamese typography writing keeps the loan (iDesign, DesignerVN, Mỹ thuật MS, nya.vn); glosses vary (phần thò xuống, nét xổ dưới dòng, đường đáy). |
| diacritical mark | combining mark | dấu phụ | proposed | Apple CoreText (Diacritics = Dấu phụ) and nya.vn (Glyph dấu phụ). In Vietnamese typography dấu thanh is the narrower word for tone marks only. |
| em | type body | em | proposed | Vietnamese web and type writing keep the unit name em (nya.vn: khung eM). The word is also a pronoun, so prose should say ô em or khung em. |
| extremum | local extreme point | điểm cực trị | proposed | Mathematical term for an extremum; nya.vn uses cực trị for the extreme masters as well. |
| glyph | glyph | proposed | Attested professional loan: nya.vn, Font Chuẩn, iDesign and Vietnamese type designers all write glyph. Apple Font Book's nét means stroke and FontForge's hình tượng never caught on; ký tự is character. | |
| handle | tay cầm | proposed | Blender, Inkscape and Vietnamese Illustrator Pen-tool tutorials call Bézier handles tay cầm; nya.vn's tay kéo is one author's word. | |
| ink trap | ink relief notch | góc tránh lem mực | proposed | nya.vn's FontLab tutorial renders Ink Trap as góc tránh lem mực; the literal bẫy mực is not attested. |
| italic angle | slant angle | góc nghiêng | proposed | FontForge vi and nya.vn. |
| lining figures | capital-height figures | chữ số thẳng hàng | proposed | Apple CoreText: Lining Figures = Chữ số thẳng hàng; Microsoft agrees. FontForge's hình lớp nội bộ is a mistranslation. |
| node | nút | proposed | Inkscape, Blender and nya.vn (nút Vector). Điểm neo, the Illustrator users' word, is avoided because neo is the anchor. | |
| overshoot | optical surplus | overshoot | proposed | Vietnamese glossaries keep the loan (DesignerVN, nya.vn); no Vietnamese term is established. Độ vượt would be the plain coinage if a reviewer wants one. |
| proportional figures | natural-width figures | chữ số tỷ lệ | proposed | Apple CoreText: Proportional Numbers = Số Tỷ lệ. |
| segment | đoạn | proposed | nya.vn's FontLab tutorials (đoạn Vector); Blender's phân đoạn is the longer alternative. | |
| serif | chân chữ | proposed | Vietnamese typography writing calls the serif chân chữ (chữ có chân, chữ không chân). Apple's nét nhô is unknown to designers; serif stays a loan only as a classification name. | |
| sharp | nhọn | proposed | Plain word for a pointed corner; Adobe's sắc nét is image sharpness. | |
| sharp node | nút nhọn | proposed | Derived from nút and nhọn; nya.vn says điểm gãy for a point where the curve breaks. | |
| stem | main stroke | nét chính | proposed | Fallback "main stroke" translated; Vietnamese anatomy glossaries describe the stem as the nét thẳng chính. Thân chữ rejected because it also names the x-height body of a letter, nét sổ because it is only vertical. |
| swash | flourish | nét bay bướm | proposed | Vietnamese says chữ bay bướm for flourished lettering and Apple renders Flourishes as bay bướm. FontForge's đuôi tu từ rejected. |
| terminal | stroke ending | đầu nét | proposed | Fallback "stroke ending" translated; Vietnamese glossaries describe the terminal as the ending of a stroke without a serif. Apple's Terminal is the application. |
| UPM | units per type body | UPM | proposed | Use UPM in compact numeric controls, as in the canonical TS. In explanatory prose: số đơn vị mỗi em. The expanded Units Per eM: label retains its full wording. |
| winding direction | drawing direction | chiều đường viền | proposed | Fallback "drawing direction" with đường viền, as in the reviewed languages (Konturrichtung). |
| x-height | small-letter height | chiều cao x | proposed | Orion Creative's anatomy glossary and the corpus alternative; FontForge's cao X is clipped. |
Font engineering¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Vietnamese | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| advance height | bước tiến dọc | proposed | No attestation; coined as the vertical counterpart of the advance, same rendering as vertical-advance. Chiều cao glyph rejected: it reads as the height of the visible outline, which the definition excludes. | |
| advance width | glyph box width | độ rộng glyph | proposed | Fallback "glyph box width" translated; nya.vn's FontLab tutorials say chiều rộng của Glyph / độ rộng ký tự. FontForge's bề rộng tiến tới and độ rộng sớm are calques nobody uses. Keeps độ rộng for the wdth axis distinct by the added noun. |
| alignment zone | height band for snapping | vùng căn chỉnh | proposed | nya.vn's FontLab tutorials title the feature "Vùng căn chỉnh – Zones". |
| anchor | attachment point | neo | proposed | FontForge vi uses neo throughout (Thêm neo, Hạng neo). Điểm neo (nya.vn) rejected: in Vietnamese Illustrator teaching điểm neo is the anchor point of a path, that is a node. |
| anti-aliasing | edge smoothing | khử răng cưa | proposed | Standard Vietnamese term (Blender, QCAD); iDesign's typography glossary has chống răng cưa as the alternative. |
| autohinting | automatic screen fitting | hinting tự động | proposed | Derived from the loan hinting; iDesign's glossary keeps auto-hinting in English. |
| axis | trục | proposed | Apple, Microsoft and nya.vn (trục biến thể) all use trục. | |
| axis map | axis value mapping | ánh xạ trục | proposed | Fallback "axis value mapping" translated; nya.vn describes the feature as biểu đồ quy đổi tọa độ trục. |
| bottom sidebearing | lề dưới | proposed | Derived from lề (sidebearing); no attestation for the vertical sidebearings. | |
| component | thành phần | proposed | Apple, Adobe and nya.vn (Glyph thành phần) use thành phần; phần tử is reserved for element. | |
| composite glyph | assembled glyph | glyph ghép | proposed | nya.vn's font-design glossary: Glyph ghép (Composite Glyph). |
| conversion profile | export settings set | cấu hình chuyển đổi | proposed | No attestation; fallback "export settings set" translated. Hồ sơ rejected as the word for a user or colour profile. |
| CVT table | bảng CVT | proposed | Tag protected, noun translated; bảng is FontForge's word for a font table. | |
| design space | variation range | không gian thiết kế | proposed | nya.vn's FontLab tutorials: không gian thiết kế biến thể. |
| device correction | per-size pixel correction | hiệu chỉnh theo cỡ | proposed | No attestation; fallback "per-size pixel correction" translated, as German Größenkorrektur. |
| dimensions | kích thước | proposed | nya.vn renders Font Dimensions as kích thước Font chữ; kept apart from số đo (measurements) and metrics. | |
| element | phần tử | proposed | nya.vn's FontLab tutorials use phần tử for Element (about 400 times); Apple and Blender agree. | |
| element reference | shared drawing link | tham chiếu phần tử | proposed | Derived from phần tử + tham chiếu; nya.vn: phần tử tham chiếu. |
| family dimensions | kích thước họ phông chữ | proposed | nya.vn: kích thước họ Font chữ; họ phông chữ is Microsoft's font family. | |
| Flex | Flex | proposed | Fixed technical name, kept as in all reviewed languages. | |
| font dimensions | kích thước phông chữ | proposed | nya.vn: đặt kích thước riêng cho Font chữ for Font Dimensions. | |
| font target | export target | phông chữ đích | proposed | Derived from phông chữ; fallback "export target". |
| font unit | đơn vị phông chữ | proposed | nya.vn: đơn vị Font chữ. | |
| fractional coordinates | non-integer coordinates | tọa độ thập phân | proposed | Follows the fallback and the reviewed languages (decimal coordinates). |
| friendly glyph name | readable glyph name | tên glyph dễ đọc | proposed | Fallback "readable glyph name" translated; derived from glyph. |
| ghost hint | edge-only fitting instruction | hint ma | proposed | Derived from hint, as Spanish hint fantasma and Polish hint widmo. |
| hint | screen fitting instruction | hint | proposed | Attested professional loan (nya.vn's FontLab tutorials, iDesign). FontForge's gợi ý and mẹo read as tips and obscure the technical meaning. |
| hint zone | hinting height band | vùng hint | proposed | Derived from hint and vùng (zone). |
| hinting | screen fitting | hinting | proposed | Attested professional loan (nya.vn, iDesign); gợi ý rejected as for hint. |
| instance | generated design | instance | proposed | nya.vn keeps Instance in its FontLab tutorials, glossed once as trường hợp nội suy. Thể hiện (programming) and phiên bản (version) rejected as misleading. |
| interpolation | nội suy | proposed | Mathematical term; nya.vn, Blender and GIMP. | |
| kern exception | pair spacing exception | ngoại lệ kerning | proposed | Derived from kerning. |
| kerning | pair spacing correction | kerning | proposed | Attested professional loan in all Vietnamese typography writing (nya.vn, dafont.vn, Font Chuẩn, The Design Council). FontForge's định chỗ and Apple's co giãn are not used by designers. |
| kerning class | pair spacing group | class kerning | proposed | nya.vn mostly keeps Class (Class Kerning, Kerning Class). Its other rendering lớp kerning collides with lớp (layer), nhóm with groups, and FontForge's hạng never caught on. |
| kerning pair | spacing-corrected pair | cặp kerning | proposed | nya.vn: cặp Kerning. |
| left sidebearing | lề trái | proposed | nya.vn glosses Left Sidebearing as khoảng rộng lề trái; derived from lề. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. | |
| Lib | Lib | proposed | Identifier of the UFO lib, kept as in all reviewed languages. | |
| line gap | khoảng hở dòng | proposed | No fixed term; coined to stay distinct from khoảng cách dòng, which in Vietnamese typography means leading (baseline to baseline). | |
| line height | chiều cao dòng | proposed | Usual Vietnamese rendering of line height in web and typography writing. | |
| link metrics | tie spacing to another glyph | liên kết metrics | proposed | Derived from metrics; nya.vn uses liên kết for linking. |
| linked metrics | metrics liên kết | proposed | Derived from metrics; the noun phrase of liên kết metrics. | |
| mark attachment | combining mark positioning | gắn dấu | proposed | Derived from dấu (mark) and gắn (FontForge's verb for attachment). |
| master | source design | master | proposed | Attested professional loan: nya.vn's FontLab tutorials keep Master and Font Master. LibreOffice's bản cái is the slide master and bản gốc reads as the original file. |
| master compatibility | matching master structure | tương thích master | proposed | Derived from master; nya.vn speaks of lỗi không tương thích between masters. |
| metrics | metrics | proposed | nya.vn's FontLab tutorials keep Metrics throughout. FontForge's đơn vị đo means units of measure, and số đo is taken by measurements. | |
| metrics expression | biểu thức metrics | proposed | Derived from metrics. | |
| metrics key | khóa metrics | proposed | Derived from metrics. | |
| pin | ghim | proposed | English term: draft. Issue 160 catalog family review: named point inside an element, distinct from a glyph-layer anchor. Proteus Resources/helptips.json def.anchorpin defines the behavior. Preserve this term across panel, tool, action and help labels; proposed terminology, not native-team approval. | |
| PPM | pixels per type body | PPM | proposed | Use PPM in compact numeric controls, as in the canonical TS. In explanatory prose: số điểm ảnh mỗi em. The expanded Units Per eM: label retains its full wording. |
| production glyph name | shipping glyph name | tên glyph xuất bản | proposed | No attestation; fallback "shipping glyph name" translated; derived from glyph. |
| rendering | drawing on screen | kết xuất | proposed | Blender and Inkscape; the usual Vietnamese word for rendering. |
| required glyphs | mandatory glyphs | glyph bắt buộc | proposed | Derived from glyph; fallback "mandatory glyphs". |
| right sidebearing | lề phải | proposed | nya.vn glosses Right Sidebearing as khoảng rộng lề phải; derived from lề. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. | |
| sidebearing | side space | lề bên | proposed | Fallback "side space" translated; nya.vn glosses the sidebearings as lề trái and lề phải, as Spanish margen. FontForge's vị trí phương hướng bên is a mistranslation; the loan sidebearing is the alternative. |
| size | kích cỡ | proposed | Apple Font Book: Font Size = Kích cỡ Phông chữ. | |
| spacing | giãn cách | proposed | Apple CoreText: Spacing = Giãn cách. | |
| standard stem | reference stem width | nét chính chuẩn | proposed | Derived from nét chính; nya.vn: chiều rộng thân tiêu chuẩn. |
| stem link | stem tie | liên kết nét chính | proposed | Derived from nét chính; nya.vn calls TrueType links Hint liên kết. |
| styling group name | tên nhóm kiểu | proposed | Derived from nhóm and Apple's kiểu (style); no attestation. | |
| subsetting | cutting down a font | tạo tập con | proposed | Tập con is the Vietnamese term for a subset; Apple's chia nhỏ phông chữ is a paraphrase. |
| top sidebearing | lề trên | proposed | Derived from lề (sidebearing); no attestation for the vertical sidebearings. | |
| tracking | uniform letter spacing | tracking | proposed | Attested professional loan beside kerning (dafont.vn, Font Chuẩn, nya.vn). Blender's giám sát is motion tracking; Apple's giãn cách ký tự is the descriptive alternative. |
| TrueType instruction | pixel fitting instruction | lệnh TrueType | proposed | Lệnh is the Vietnamese word for a program instruction. |
| typographic family name | tên họ phông chữ typographic | proposed | Họ phông chữ is Microsoft's and nya.vn's font family; typographic is left as the label of the name record because Vietnamese has no settled adjective. | |
| update metrics | cập nhật metrics | proposed | Derived from metrics. | |
| variable font | phông chữ biến đổi | proposed | nya.vn (Font chữ biến đổi), dafont.vn and hocdohoa.org; Vietnamese writing also leaves variable font in English. | |
| variation location | position in the variation range | vị trí biến thể | proposed | Derived: nya.vn calls the axes trục biến thể and gives masters a tọa độ; vị trí is the plain word for location. |
| vertical advance | glyph box height | bước tiến dọc | proposed | No attestation; the fallback "glyph box height" would give chiều cao glyph, which reads as the outline height. |
| vertical metrics | metrics dọc | proposed | Derived from metrics. | |
| visual kerning | shape-measured spacing correction | kerning thị giác | proposed | Derived from kerning; thị giác is the designers' word for optical judgement. |
| weight axis | thickness axis | trục độ đậm | proposed | Derived from trục and độ đậm. |
| weight class | cấp độ đậm | proposed | Derived from độ đậm; cấp is the plain word for a grade on a scale. FontForge's hạng đậm is the alternative. | |
| width axis | narrow-to-wide axis | trục độ rộng | proposed | Derived from trục and độ rộng. |
| width class | cấp độ rộng | proposed | Derived as weight class; FontForge's hạng bề rộng is the alternative. |
OpenType¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Vietnamese | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Glyph List | Adobe Glyph List | do-not-translate | ||
| alternate glyph | glyph variant | glyph thay thế | proposed | Derived from glyph + Apple CoreText's thay thế (Character Alternates = Ký tự Thay thế). Biến thể glyph rejected: biến thể is taken by font variation. |
| cmap | cmap | do-not-translate | ||
| code page | legacy character table | trang mã | proposed | Established Vietnamese IT term; nya.vn: trang mã ký tự (Codepages). |
| color font table | bảng phông chữ màu | proposed | Derived: bảng is FontForge's word for a font table, phông chữ màu for colour font. | |
| contextual alternates | context-dependent variants | thay thế theo ngữ cảnh | proposed | Apple CoreText and Microsoft both use Thay thế Theo ngữ cảnh; FontForge's đồ xen kẽ ngữ cảnh rejected. |
| cursive attachment | joined-script connection | gắn chữ thảo | proposed | FontForge vi: gắn với chữ thảo, shortened; gắn is reused for mark attachment. |
| design languages | ngôn ngữ đích | proposed | Follows the reviewed languages (target languages); ngôn ngữ thiết kế would be read as a visual design language. | |
| encoding | bảng mã | proposed | The Vietnamese font world's own word for an encoding (bảng mã Unicode, TCVN3, VNI; nya.vn). Apple's mã hóa names the process and also means encryption. | |
| feature code | layout rule code | mã tính năng | proposed | Derived from tính năng; nya.vn calls FEA ngôn ngữ lập trình AFDKO. |
| fractions | phân số | proposed | Apple CoreText: Fractions = Phân số. | |
| glyph index | glyph number | chỉ số glyph | proposed | Derived from glyph; nya.vn describes Glyph Index as thứ tự của Glyph. |
| glyph name | tên glyph | proposed | nya.vn: tên Glyph. | |
| GPOS | GPOS | do-not-translate | ||
| GSUB | GSUB | do-not-translate | ||
| ligature | joined letters | chữ ghép | proposed | Apple CoreText and Vietnamese typography glossaries. |
| localized forms | language-specific variants | dạng bản địa hóa | proposed | FontForge vi: hình đã địa phương hoá, modernised with Apple's dạng (forms) and the current word bản địa hóa. |
| lookup | procedure | thủ tục | approved | User/team procedure fallback. No sufficiently strong established OpenType-specific alternative verified in the reviewed primary sources. Keep the approved contextual Rules panel title. Preserve literal FEA lookup/lookupflag keywords, identifiers and OpenType structure names. Ordinary search senses are separate. |
| mark glyph | combining mark glyph | glyph dấu | proposed | nya.vn: Glyph dấu phụ; derived from glyph and dấu. |
| nonspacing mark | zero-width combining mark | dấu không chiếm chỗ | proposed | Derived from dấu and the rendering of nonspacing; no attestation. |
| oldstyle figures | lowercase-style figures | chữ số kiểu cũ | proposed | Apple CoreText (Oldstyle Figures = Chữ số Kiểu cũ) and Microsoft. |
| OpenType class | layout glyph group | class OpenType | proposed | Derived from the loan class chosen for kerning class. |
| OpenType feature | layout feature | tính năng OpenType | proposed | dafont.vn and nya.vn: tính năng OpenType. |
| OS/2 table | bảng OS/2 | proposed | Tag protected, noun translated; bảng is FontForge's word for a font table. | |
| Private Use Area | Private Use Area | do-not-translate | ||
| single substitution | thay thế đơn | proposed | FontForge vi: thay thế đơn. | |
| small caps | small capitals | chữ hoa nhỏ | proposed | Apple CoreText: Small Caps = Chữ hoa Nhỏ; Microsoft agrees. |
| stylistic set | bộ phong cách | proposed | Apple CoreText uses phong cách for stylistic (Nhóm Phong cách %d); bộ is the word for a set. Microsoft's tập văn phong is about prose style. | |
| tabular figures | equal-width figures | chữ số dạng bảng | proposed | Apple CoreText: Tabular numbers = Số trong bảng; chữ số as in the other figure terms. |
| Unicode codepoint | character code | điểm mã Unicode | proposed | nya.vn's glossary: điểm mã Unicode; the standard Vietnamese rendering of code point. |
| variation selector | variant picker character | bộ chọn biến thể | proposed | No attestation found; literal rendering with biến thể and bộ chọn (selector). |
| writing system | hệ chữ viết | proposed | The linguistic term in Vietnamese; Microsoft's hệ thống viết is a calque. |
File formats¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Vietnamese | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI file | AI file | do-not-translate | ||
| AIP | AIP | do-not-translate | ||
| FLREQ | FLREQ | do-not-translate | ||
| Fog.net | Fog.net | do-not-translate | ||
| Glyphs file | Glyphs file | do-not-translate | ||
| Lines file | Lines file | do-not-translate | ||
| OTF | OTF | do-not-translate | ||
| SVG | SVG | do-not-translate | ||
| TTC | TTC | do-not-translate | ||
| TTF | TTF | do-not-translate | ||
| Type 1 | Type 1 | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| UFO | UFO | do-not-translate | ||
| VFB | VFB | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| VFC | VFC | do-not-translate | ||
| VFJ | VFJ | do-not-translate | ||
| WOFF2 | WOFF2 | do-not-translate |
Interface¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Vietnamese | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| action | hành động | proposed | Apple (11 origins) and nya.vn's FontLab tutorials ("hành động – Actions") use hành động; thao tác rejected because it is the generic word for any editing step. | |
| add | thêm | proposed | Platform word in Apple Vietnamese. | |
| alternate | dạng thay thế | proposed | Apple CoreText: Alternate Forms = Dạng Thay thế; Microsoft also uses thay thế. Biến thể kept for variation. | |
| anchor cloud | attachment point cloud | đám mây neo | proposed | Derived from neo (anchor) + đám mây; no attestation of the compound. |
| auto layer | recipe-built layer | lớp tự động | proposed | Derived from lớp (layer); no attestation of the compound. |
| autohint | hint tự động | proposed | Derived from the loan hint; nya.vn keeps Autohint. FontForge's gợi ý tự động rejected with gợi ý. | |
| Brush | cọ | proposed | Real tool's name; cọ is the majority rendering in the corpus (9 origins) and nya.vn calls the FontLab tool cọ vẽ. | |
| collapse | thu gọn | proposed | Platform word (Apple Font Book, Microsoft), following the reviewed languages. For the node operation in the definition (nodes aligned to one point) chụm would be the plain verb; needs a reviewer's call per string. | |
| color flag | color mark | cờ màu | proposed | No attestation; fallback "color mark" avoided because dấu is the word for a diacritic mark. Cờ follows the established gắn cờ for flagging. |
| corner angles | góc tại đỉnh | proposed | No attestation; translated from the definition (angles at contour vertices), as French angles aux sommets. | |
| cousins | related glyphs alongside | họ hàng | proposed | House voice: the plain collective word for relatives, like Polish kuzynostwo; anh em họ rejected because it needs a plural. |
| crop | cắt xén | proposed | Apple Photos and Notes. | |
| cubic | bậc ba | proposed | Mathematical term for the degree of a curve (đường cong bậc ba); FontForge's lập phương means a cube. | |
| current | hiện tại | proposed | Apple and Microsoft; nya.vn's hiện hành is the older bureaucratic word. | |
| cusp | đỉnh nhọn | proposed | No attestation in type sources; plain description of a sharp point, derived from nhọn (sharp). | |
| decompose | break into contours | phân rã | proposed | GIMP and general Vietnamese software usage for breaking a compound into parts; short enough for a menu. |
| default | mặc định | proposed | Platform word in Apple Vietnamese. | |
| demo mode | chế độ demo | proposed | Demo is an everyday loan in Vietnamese; dùng thử would promise a time-limited trial. | |
| dialog | hộp thoại | proposed | Platform word in Apple, Krita and QCAD. | |
| Dream Up | generate shapes | hô biến | proposed | House voice: the Vietnamese conjuring word, like Polish wyczaruj; the corpus pick tạo hình is only a description. |
| echo text | repeated text | lặp văn bản | proposed | No attestation; fallback "repeated text" translated in the compact verb form the reviewed languages use. |
| Eraser | tẩy | proposed | Real tool's name; Apple, Illustrator and Photoshop sources use tẩy. | |
| expand filter | bake filter into contours | chốt bộ lọc | proposed | No attestation; fallback "bake filter into contours" translated with chốt (to lock in), one verb for the three expand commands as Polish utrwal. Mở rộng rejected: it means to widen. |
| expand stroke | bake stroke into contours | chốt nét | proposed | Same verb as expand filter; FontForge's mở rộng nét rejected as a literal calque meaning to widen the stroke. |
| expand transformation | bake transformation into contours | chốt phép biến đổi | proposed | Same verb as expand filter; follows German festschreiben and Spanish fijar. |
| feature | tính năng | proposed | FontForge vi, nya.vn (thẻ tính năng) and dafont.vn (tính năng OpenType). | |
| Fills | phần tô | proposed | Corpus alternative phần tô (2 origins); nya.vn says tô for FontLab's Fill tool. Lấp đầy rejected as the verb to fill up. | |
| FontAudit | FontAudit | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab account | tài khoản FontLab | proposed | Translate the common noun account and inflect it in complete sentences; preserve the FontLab brand. German, Spanish and French wording is already used in current FontLab UI. Other language forms are proposals. Do not duplicate account when the surrounding sentence already translates it. | |
| Fusion | Welder | Thợ hàn | proposed | User decision 2026-10-04: translate the fallback Welder, the named live boolean group filter. Polish Spawacz is explicit; other renderings are proposals. Preserve Fusion in code identifiers. |
| Genius node | self-balancing node | nút thiên tài | proposed | House voice, derived from nút; nya.vn's điểm thông minh rejected because thông minh is the AI word. |
| grid | lưới | proposed | Apple, Adobe and nya.vn (Lưới – Grid). | |
| Groups | nhóm | proposed | Apple, Microsoft and nya.vn. | |
| guide | đường gióng | proposed | Vietnamese design teaching (Mỹ thuật MS, Orion Creative) calls guides đường gióng. Nya.vn's đường dẫn rejected because it also means a file path; hướng dẫn means instructions. | |
| kerning mode | chế độ kerning | proposed | Derived from kerning; nya.vn: chế độ chỉnh sửa Kerning. | |
| Knife | dao | proposed | Real tool's name; Apple and nya.vn (công cụ dao). | |
| layer | lớp | proposed | FontForge, GIMP, Krita, Apple and Adobe-related sources; nya.vn glosses Layer as lớp bản vẽ. | |
| Layers | lớp | proposed | Same word as layer; Vietnamese marks no plural. | |
| mark | dấu | proposed | FontForge vi (neo dấu) and Vietnamese typography writing, where dấu is the everyday word for any accent or tone mark. | |
| Masks | mặt nạ | proposed | Blender vi; nya.vn keeps Layer Mask in English. | |
| match | khớp | proposed | Apple, Blender and FontForge. | |
| matching | khớp nhau | proposed | Derived from khớp; đối chiếu means to compare. | |
| Matchmaker | master matcher | mai mối | proposed | House voice: the plain Vietnamese word for matchmaking, like Polish swat. Bà mối rejected as gendered; nya.vn keeps Matchmaker. |
| measurement line | đường đo | proposed | Derived from đo (to measure); nya.vn: thước đo Measurement Line. | |
| measurements | số đo | proposed | Plain word for measured values; kept apart from kích thước (dimensions) and metrics. | |
| Measurements panel | bảng Số đo | proposed | Derived from số đo and bảng (panel). | |
| merge | hợp nhất | proposed | Apple Finder and Illustrator sources. | |
| mesh | khung lưới | proposed | Blender vi; keeps mesh distinct from lưới (grid). | |
| metrics mode | chế độ metrics | proposed | nya.vn: chế độ chỉnh sửa Metrics. | |
| metrics table | bảng metrics | proposed | nya.vn keeps Metrics Table; derived from metrics. | |
| metrics tool | công cụ metrics | proposed | nya.vn: công cụ Metrics. | |
| monospaced | đơn cách | proposed | FontForge vi and nya.vn (Font chữ đơn cách); Apple's giãn cách đơn is the longer alternative. | |
| multi-line | nhiều dòng | proposed | Plain Vietnamese; no competing term. | |
| nonspacing | zero-width | không chiếm chỗ | proposed | No attestation; fallback "zero-width" put in plain words (takes up no room), since the element stays visible but is ignored in metrics. |
| Nudge | push move | nhích | proposed | House voice: the everyday verb for moving something a little; Blender vi also uses nhích. |
| Oblique | Oblique | proposed | Fixed FontLab operation, kept; Apple's xiên names any slanted style. | |
| panel | bảng | proposed | Apple, Illustrator-related sources and Vietnamese Adobe tutorials (bảng Character); nya.vn's bảng điều khiển is too long for labels. The word is shared with font tables. | |
| Pencil | bút chì | proposed | Real tool's name; Apple and nya.vn. | |
| Power Brush | power calligraphic brush | siêu cọ | proposed | House voice: siêu is the comic-book word for super (Power Rangers are siêu nhân), and tăng lực, the energy-drink word, is the longer alternative. Derived from cọ. |
| Power Guide | power guideline | siêu đường gióng | proposed | Same siêu as the other Power names; derived from đường gióng. |
| Power Nudge | power push move | siêu nhích | proposed | Same siêu as the other Power names; derived from nhích. Nya.vn's di chuyển điểm thông minh is a description. |
| Power Stroke | power stroke outline | siêu nét | proposed | Same siêu as the other Power names; Inkscape's nét vẽ quyền lực sounds like political power. |
| project | dự án | approved | Team agreement recovered from Proteus QPH on 2026-10-04. Project names the editable document; do not replace it with package. | |
| property bar | thanh thuộc tính | proposed | Standard interface wording (thanh + thuộc tính); nya.vn keeps Property Bar. | |
| quick measurement | đo nhanh | proposed | Derived from đo (to measure). | |
| Rapid | Rapid | approved | Issue 161 names the tool Rapid in Latin scripts and requires transliteration elsewhere. Canonical TS uses Rapid. Do not translate the tool name as fast or quick, and do not use Rapidograph. Contrast classifications use the ordinary speed adjective. | |
| redo | làm lại | proposed | Platform word in Apple and Adobe-related sources. | |
| reference | tham chiếu | proposed | Apple, FontForge and nya.vn. | |
| Remove Overlap | merge overlapping contours | bỏ chồng lấp | proposed | FontForge vi: bỏ chỗ chồng lấp, shortened. |
| repeat | lặp lại | proposed | Platform word in Apple; distinct from làm lại (redo). | |
| reverse contour | flip drawing direction | đảo chiều đường viền | proposed | Derived from đường viền and chiều (direction); nya.vn describes Reverse Contour as đảo ngược. |
| Scissors | kéo | proposed | Real tool's name; Apple and nya.vn (công cụ kéo). The word is also the verb to drag, so running text should say công cụ Kéo. | |
| Servant node | Follower node | nút bám theo | proposed | House voice for Follower node: a node that tags along behind its leaders. Nya.vn's điểm phụ thuộc (dependent point) rejected as the obsolete servant sense. |
| Sigma | Sigma | do-not-translate | ||
| Sketchboard | scratch canvas | giấy nháp | proposed | House voice: scratch paper, the everyday thing you doodle on before committing; matches the fallback "scratch canvas". Bảng phác thảo rejected because bảng is the word for a panel. |
| Skin | wrapping outline | vỏ | proposed | House voice: the peel or skin of a fruit, like Polish skórka; da is human skin. |
| smart | clever | khéo | proposed | House voice: khéo is the plain word for deft or clever with one's hands and suits a tool. Thông minh is the AI word; lanh and khôn describe people, tinh ranh sounds devious. |
| Smart Corner | clever corner | góc khéo | proposed | Derived from khéo (smart); nya.vn's góc thông minh rejected because thông minh is the AI word. |
| Smart Filter | Bộ lọc khéo | proposed | Named glyph-selection filter; not a graphical live effect. Match this term in the Font window, Aidus settings, dialogs and help. | |
| spacing controls | side space handles | tay cầm giãn cách | proposed | Derived: fallback "side space handles" with tay cầm (handle) and giãn cách (spacing). |
| sticker | nhãn dán | proposed | The everyday Vietnamese word for a sticker (messaging apps). | |
| tab | tab | proposed | Apple keeps tab; thẻ is the rarer alternative. | |
| text element | text block | phần tử văn bản | proposed | Derived from phần tử. |
| thickness | độ dày | proposed | Microsoft and Blender; nya.vn: độ dày nét. | |
| Transform | biến đổi | proposed | Illustrator- and Photoshop-related sources; nya.vn: biến đổi hình học. | |
| transformation | phép biến đổi | proposed | Derived from biến đổi; the mathematical noun. | |
| True Fill | final black rendering | tô thật | proposed | House voice: short and plain, the fill as it really is. No attestation; tô đúng is the alternative. |
| uncheck | bỏ chọn | proposed | Platform word in Apple. | |
| Vexy coins | Vexy coins | do-not-translate | ||
| waterfall | size ladder preview | thác nước | proposed | Apple Font Book and Microsoft render the font waterfall as thác nước. |
| weight | độ đậm | proposed | Apple CoreText (Weight = Độ đậm) and FontForge; trọng lượng is physical weight. | |
| whitespace | khoảng trắng | proposed | General software usage; Blender's khoảng trống trắng is redundant. |
Vector drawing¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Vietnamese | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appearance panel | bảng Appearance | proposed | Illustrator has no Vietnamese interface, so the reader sees the panel under its English name; only the noun panel is translated. | |
| autotrace | bitmap to outline conversion | vector hóa tự động | proposed | Vector hóa is the designers' word for tracing a bitmap (Adobe's vn_vi pages use véc-tơ hóa); Inkscape's tự động truy tìm rejected as a mistranslation of trace. |
| centerline | đường tâm | proposed | Standard technical-drawing term for a centre line; Microsoft's bẫy đường trục is unrelated. | |
| clipping mask | mặt nạ cắt | proposed | Derived from mặt nạ; a common rendering of clipping mask in Vietnamese design tutorials, not checked against a foundry source. | |
| control point | control handle point | điểm điều khiển | proposed | Blender and QCAD use điểm điều khiển. |
| Fill Grid | grid of fill lines | lưới tô | proposed | Derived from lưới + tô; fallback "grid of fill lines" has no Vietnamese attestation. |
| fill mode | line fill style | chế độ tô | proposed | Derived from tô; Blender's chế độ tô phủ kín is longer than needed. |
| G2 continuity | tính liên tục G2 | proposed | Mathematical term liên tục with the G2 label protected. | |
| Live Effect | editable effect | hiệu ứng động | proposed | No Vietnamese Illustrator interface exists; follows Polish efekt dynamiczny and the fallback "editable effect". |
| off-curve point | point off the curve | điểm ngoài đường cong | proposed | Fallback "point off the curve" translated, as in the reviewed languages. |
| on-curve point | point on the curve | điểm trên đường cong | proposed | Fallback "point on the curve" translated, as in the reviewed languages. |
| outline | đường viền | proposed | Apple CoreText (Outlines = Đường viền) and nya.vn. The same word as contour, as in German, Spanish, French and Polish; FontForge's phác thảo means a sketch. | |
| stroke | nét | proposed | Illustrator- and Photoshop-related sources and Apple; nét is also the word for a stroke of a letter. | |
| stroke cap | stroke end cap | đầu mút nét | proposed | Derived from nét; đầu mút is the plain word for the tip of a line. Kept apart from đầu nét (terminal). |
| stroke join | stroke corner shape | chỗ nối nét | proposed | Derived from nét; fallback "stroke corner shape". |
| tangent node | straight-to-curve node | nút tiếp tuyến | proposed | Blender: nút tiếp tuyến. |
| tonal map | darkness map | bản đồ sắc độ | proposed | Sắc độ is the art term for tonal value; no attestation of the compound. |
| Tunni line | đường Tunni | proposed | Eponym kept; nya.vn keeps Tunni Lines. |