binh cách

Binh cách đã để lại nhiều dấu tích trên những bức tường thành cổ.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Warfare, military conflict: "Binh cách" refers to the state of war, armed conflict, or military strife.
   • Weapons and armor (archaic): In its original, literal sense, "binh cách" meant weapons (binh) and armor/helmet (cách).

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Thời kỳ đó đầy rẫy binh cách. (That period was full of warfare.)
  • Binh cách khiến dân chúng lầm than. (Military conflict causes the people to suffer.)

Advanced Usage

• This word is considered literary and somewhat archaic in modern Vietnamese. It is typically used in historical, literary, or formal contexts to describe periods of war or conflict, rather than in everyday conversation about modern wars.

Variants and Related Words

• Binh đao (n): A more common synonym for war or armed conflict.
  • Đất nước trải qua nhiều năm binh đao. (The country went through many years of war.)
• Chiến tranh (n): The standard, modern word for "war".
• Chinh chiến (n/v): Military campaigns; to wage war.

Synonyms

• Chiến tranh: War.
• Binh đao: War, armed conflict.
• Hỏa đao: The "sword of fire"; a poetic term for war.

Related Idioms/Phrases

• Binh cách liên miên: Protracted warfare; a state of continuous or unending conflict.
  • Lịch sử ghi lại thời kỳ binh cách liên miên. (History records a period of protracted warfare.)