Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Burned, scalded: Describes skin or tissue injured by heat, fire, steam, hot liquid, or chemicals.
   • Burning, scalding, parching: Describes an intense, painful sensation of heat, either physical or metaphorical.

2. Noun (less common):

   • A burn: Refers to the injury or wound itself.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • Tay bị bỏng nước sôi. (A hand scalded by boiling water.)
  • Cát bỏng dưới nắng trưa. (The sand is burning under the noon sun.)
  • Cảm giác nóng bỏng. (A burning/scorching feeling.)

• Noun:

  • Anh ấy bị một vết bỏng nặng. (He has a severe burn.)

Advanced Usage

• Metaphorical Use: Describes intense, consuming emotions or sensations.

  • Nỗi nhớ cháy bỏng. (A burning/passionate longing.)
  • Lời nói bỏng tai. (Words that are "scorching" or shocking to the ear.)

• In Fixed Expressions:

  • Nói rát cổ bỏng họng.: To talk until one's throat is sore and burning (to speak oneself hoarse).
  • Chết bỏng.: To die from burns.

Variants and Related Words

• Bỏng rát (adj): A more emphatic form describing a stinging, burning sensation (e.g., - a stinging burn).
• Phỏng (adj/n): A common Southern Vietnamese variant with the same meanings (burned, a burn).
• Cháy bỏng (adj): Intensely hot or passionate (e.g., - a burning dream).

Synonyms

• Phỏng (adj/n): Burned, a burn (regional synonym).
• Rát (adj): Sore, stinging (often used alongside for sensation).
• Cháy (adj/v): Burned, scorched (focuses more on the action or result of fire).

Related Phrases/Idioms

• Nóng bỏng (adj): Scalding hot; (figuratively) urgent, pressing (e.g., - a burning/pressing issue).
• Bỏng mắt (adj): So bright or glaring it "burns the eyes."
• Bỏng tay (adj/v): To burn one's hand; (figuratively) to get one's fingers burned (to have a bad experience, often from meddling).

adj

1. Burned, scalded, burning, parching, scalding
   • tay bị bỏng nước sôi
     a hand scalded by boiling water
   • vết bỏng
     a burn
   • bỏng a xít
     burned by acid
   • chết bỏng
     to die from burns
   • nói rát cổ bỏng họng
     to speak oneself hoarse
   • cháy bỏng
     parching hot
   • những ngày hè cháy bỏng
     parching hot summer days
   • nóng bỏng