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Unique name for a clothing alteration and dry cleaning business. Before the Vietnamese adopted the Latin alphabet, they wrote in Chinese (Hán) or, less frequently, in their own script (Nôm). Hán Nôm, then, refers to two writing systems no longer extant in Vietnam. It's as if the shop owner sees his tailoring skills as a rarified knowledge similar to Hán Nôm. It's such an elegant and poetic name, but since this is in Berlin and not Hanoi, it has no resonance to anyone but the namer himself.




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