Definition

1. Noun:
   • Way, path, road: "đàng" refers to a route, a path, or a road for traveling from one place to another. This is the primary meaning.
   • Manner, direction: It can also indicate a manner of doing something or a specific direction.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Đây là con đàng dẫn đến làng. (This is the path leading to the village.)
  • Anh ấy chỉ cho tôi đàng đi. (He showed me the way to go.)
  • Mỗi người có một đàng đi riêng. (Each person has their own path in life.)

Advanced Usage

• "đàng hoàng": properly, decently, respectably. This is a fixed compound adjective.
  • Anh ta làm ăn rất đàng hoàng. (He does business very properly.)
• "đàng cực": a difficult or arduous path/way.
  • Cuộc đời nhiều khi phải đi qua những đàng cực. (Life often requires walking through difficult paths.)

Variants and Related Words

• đường: This is the more common, standard modern spelling and pronunciation of "đàng". They share the same core meanings (road, path, way). "Đàng" is considered more archaic or dialectal.
• lối: path, way, manner.
• nẻo: path, route (often poetic).

Synonyms

• con đường: road, path.
• lộ trình: itinerary, route.
• phương cách: method, manner.

Related Phrases

(Note: "đàng" itself is rarely used in phrasal verb constructions in modern Vietnamese. The following are related to the concept of "way/path") - chỉ đàng: to show the way. - Người già thường chỉ đàng cho con cháu. (The elderly often show the way for their descendants.) - lạc đàng: to lose one's way. - Chúng tôi đã bị lạc đàng trong rừng. (We lost our way in the forest.)

Related Idioms

• "Đàng đi muôn dặm cũng gần, đàng lòng muôn trượng cũng gần bên nhau": (Proverb) A road of ten thousand miles is near if the hearts are close; meaning emotional closeness transcends physical distance.
• "Biết đâu mà mò, biết đàng nào mà lần": (Idiom) To not know which way to turn; to be completely lost or clueless about what to do.

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