Vietnamese phrase

How to say “So beautiful I'm dying” in Vietnamese

So beautiful I'm dying” in Vietnamese is

Đẹp xỉu

Hear it in both accents

Vietnamese sounds noticeably different north to south. Both are recorded so you can match wherever you are.

Northern

Hanoi and the north

Southern

Saigon and the south

Used in a sentence

Trời ơi, cảnh ở đây đẹp xỉu luôn!

Oh my god, the view here is drop-dead gorgeous!

Northern

Hanoi and the north

Southern

Saigon and the south

Worth knowing

Word by word: đẹp (beautiful) + xỉu (to faint)

North vs south: While 'xỉu' is a Southern word for fainting, this slang is popular across Vietnam.

When you would use it

This line comes from the Gen Z Vietnamese Slang situation pack in XinChao (Legend) — the moments you actually run into in Việt Nam, not textbook drills.

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