Definitions

1. Noun:

   • Cypress tree: A type of coniferous tree, often long-lived, with scale-like leaves, commonly used for ornamental purposes.
   • Wooden skiff: A small boat traditionally made from cypress wood.
   • Hundred: The number 100.

2. Adjective:

   • Describing a slapping sound: The sound produced when two soft objects strike each other forcefully.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Cypress tree):
  • Trong vườn có một cây bách cổ thụ. (There is an ancient cypress tree in the garden.)
• Noun (Wooden skiff):
  • Chiếc bách lướt nhẹ trên mặt hồ. (The wooden skiff glided lightly on the lake's surface.)
• Noun (Hundred):
  • Anh ấy có bách lý do để từ chối. (He has a hundred reasons to refuse.)
• Adjective (Sound):
  • Ông ta vỗ đùi đánh bách một cái. (He slapped his thigh with a bách sound.)

Advanced Usage

• "bách niên giai lão": A traditional blessing meaning "may you live together for a hundred years," wishing a couple a long and happy marriage.
  • Mọi người cùng nâng cốc chúc cô dâu chú rể bách niên giai lão. (Everyone raised their glasses to wish the bride and groom a long and happy life together.)
• "bách phát bách trúng": An idiom meaning "every shot hits the target" or "a hundred hits out of a hundred shots," used to describe perfect accuracy.
  • Tay thiện xạ ấy bắn bách phát bách trúng. (That sharpshooter hits the target every single time.)
• "thuốc bách bệnh": Literally "medicine for a hundred diseases," refers to a cure-all or panacea.
  • Không có loại thuốc nào là thuốc bách bệnh cả. (There is no such thing as a cure-all medicine.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bách hợp: Lily (a flower; note: this is a compound word where "bách" is part of the name, not directly related to the core meanings above).
• Bách khoa: Encyclopedia (a compound word meaning "a hundred branches of learning").
• Bách phân: Percent (a compound word, from "bách" (hundred) and "phần" (part)).

Synonyms

• Trăm: Hundred (more common, colloquial synonym for the number).
• Cây tùng bách: Cypress tree (a more descriptive phrase).
• Thuyền con: Small boat (a general term).

Related Idioms

• "Bách chiến bách thắng": To win every battle, to be ever-victorious.
  • Vị tướng tài ba đó có một sự nghiệp bách chiến bách thắng. (That talented general had an ever-victorious career.)
• "Trăm nghe không bằng một thấy": (Using "trăm," a synonym) Hearing a hundred times isn't as good as seeing once. Similar to "Seeing is believing."

noun

1. cypress; cypress-tree
2. Wooden skiff

number

1. Hundred; a hundred and one
   • thuốc trị bách bệnh
     cure-all, panacea
   • chúc cô dâu chú rể bách niên giai lão
     may the bridegroom and the bride live to be a hundred together
   • bách phát bách trúng
     to hit the mark one hundred times out of one hundred
   • bắn rất giỏi, bách phát bách trúng
     to be a first-class shot, to be a first-class marksman