"Hướng đông"

Translation: The east

[piomar123]

Weird, the north would make more sense as a winter direction :D

[feyMorgaina]

Cute, but "đông" has multiple etymological origins.

It's meaning as "winter" likely came from the Chinese character 冬, pronounced "dōng" in Mandarin and "dūng" in Cantonese, while it's meaning as "east" likely came from 東, pronounced like 冬 in both Mandarin and Cantonese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%91%C3%B4ng#Vietnamese

https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqb=%E5%86%AC

https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqb=%E6%9D%B1