... characters as phonetic symbols to 10 and with himself as Chairman , and as vice Chairmen , Thân Nhân Trung and Ðỗ Nhuận . Within this Hội Tao Ðàn, himself and his courtiersexchanged poems in nôm which ... of the phonetic (read ba) and the signific meaning three. Nôm character ,(tay, hand) is made up of the signific (hand) and the phonetic (read tây). Nômcharacter (trăm, hundred) is made up of ... made of the following Chữ nôm (khề-khà, [of voice] to be drawling and hoarse) and (khệnh-khạng, to be awkward; to walk slowly like an important person, put on airs).27) These Chữ nôm of a...