Definition

1. Verb:

   • To peddle / to hawk: The primary meaning of "bán rong" is to sell goods, typically inexpensive items, by carrying them around or moving from place to place, often on foot or with a small cart, and calling out to attract customers.
   • To be a street vendor: It describes the activity of selling goods informally in public spaces without a fixed retail location.

2. Noun (implied):

   • The term can refer to the act or profession itself, as in "nghề bán rong" (the peddling trade).

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Người phụ nữ bán rong các loại bánh kẹo trên phố. (The woman peddles candies and cakes on the street.)
  • Trước đây, ông tôi thường bán rong tạp hóa trong làng. (In the past, my grandfather used to hawk groceries around the village.)

Advanced Usage

• "bán rong dạo": This variant emphasizes the itinerant, wandering nature of the selling.
  • Anh ấy sống bằng nghề bán rong dạo các loại đồ chơi trẻ em. (He makes a living by wandering around peddling children's toys.)

Variants and Related Words

• Người bán rong (n): a peddler, a hawker, a street vendor.

  • Những người bán rong thường dậy rất sớm. (Street vendors usually wake up very early.)

• Hàng rong (n): goods sold by peddlers; street merchandise.

  • Tôi thích mua trái cây từ các gánh hàng rong. (I like to buy fruit from the street vendors' carrying poles.)

Synonyms

• Peddle: to sell goods, especially by traveling from place to place.
• Hawk: to offer goods for sale by calling out in the street.
• Vend: to sell, especially as a street vendor.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Cuộc sống bán rong: A life of peddling; a hand-to-mouth existence characterized by informal street vending.
  • Cuộc sống bán rong của họ vất vả và bấp bênh. (Their life of peddling is hard and precarious.)