Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Dazzlingly bright red; intensely and vividly red: Describes a red color that is extremely bright, vivid, and often harsh or glaring to the eyes, like the color of hot metal or a very strong light.
   • Ardent red; rutilant: A literary term for a fiery, glowing red.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Mặt trời lặn để lại một vệt sáng đỏ chói trên bầu trời. (The setting sun left a dazzlingly bright red streak across the sky.)
  • Chiếc áo của cô ấy có màu đỏ chói, dễ dàng nhận ra từ xa. (Her dress was a vivid, glaring red, easily spotted from a distance.)
  • Những tia lửa đỏ chói bắn ra từ lò rèn. (Ardent red sparks shot out from the forge.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in literary, descriptive, or poetic contexts to emphasize the intensity, heat, or overwhelming brightness of the color red.
  • Sắc đỏ chói của lá phong vào mùa thu. (The rutilant red of maple leaves in autumn.)
• Can imply a sense of warning, danger, or overwhelming visual impact due to its intensity.
  • Đèn báo hiệu nhấp nháy màu đỏ chói. (The warning light flashed a dazzling red.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đỏ (adj): Red. The basic color term.
• Chói (adj): Dazzling, glaring, blinding (usually referring to light). When combined with "đỏ," it intensifies the color.
• Đỏ rực (adj): Blazing red, glowing red (emphasizes heat/light like fire).
• Đỏ ối (adj): Deep, vivid red (often for fruits or dense color).
• Đỏ au (adj): Bright, shiny red (like copper or ripe fruit).

Synonyms

• Rutilant (adj): Glowing or glittering with a red light. (A more literary synonym in English).
• Flaming red (adj): Bright red like flames.
• Scarlet (n/adj): A bright red with a slight orange tinge.
• Vermilion (n/adj): A brilliant red or scarlet pigment.

Related Phrases

• Màu đỏ chói lọi: A more emphatic form, meaning a brilliantly, strikingly bright red.
  • Lá cờ tung bay với màu đỏ chói lọi. (The flag fluttered in a brilliant, striking red.)

Related Idioms

• While "đỏ chói" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it can be used in figurative expressions describing intense emotions or situations.
  • Cơn giận đỏ chói mặt. (A rage that makes one's face turn flaming red.)

1. Dazzlingly bright red