Words similar to viet

Example sentences for: viet

How can you use “viet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(The same is true for another of Vietnam's most famous images: Eddie Adams' photo of the gun-to-temple execution of a Viet Cong.)
' Thus in the Chinese spoken language of that time we have two homophones, one meant `the Viet (people or kingdom),' the other simply `extreme, to exceed.
The problem was solved simply by using an already standard character that had a similar sound to what the Viet called themselves.
It was such an invasion in 1975--and not anything the Viet Cong did--that caused the collapse of South Vietnam.
My argument is not that the Chinese pronunciation for Viet is “Yueh” but that Mr. Henn errs when he translates the Chinese character as `extreme.