biên thùy
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Definition
- Noun:
- Border region, frontier: "Biên thùy" refers to a border area or frontier region, typically of a country. It is a literary and somewhat archaic term in modern Vietnamese.
- Border, boundary: It can also denote the border or boundary line itself, especially in a poetic or historical context.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Những người lính canh giữ nơi biên thùy xa xôi. (Soldiers guard the remote frontier region.)
- Thơ ca thường nhắc đến hình ảnh biên thùy heo hút. (Poetry often mentions the image of the desolate frontier.)
Advanced Usage
- This word is primarily used in literary, historical, or formal contexts. In everyday modern speech, "biên giới" is the more common and neutral term for "border."
- It often carries connotations of remoteness, hardship, and the duty of guarding the nation's territory.
Variants and Related Words
- Biên cương (n): A near-synonym, also meaning "frontier" or "border region," used in similar literary or formal contexts.
- Biên giới (n): The standard, modern term for "border" or "frontier."
- Vùng biên (n): Border area, borderland.
Synonyms
- Biên giới (n): Border, frontier.
- Vùng biên cương (n): Frontier region.
Related Phrases
- Nơi biên thùy: At the frontier.
- Họ sống cuộc đời bình dị nơi biên thùy. (They live a simple life at the frontier.)
- (cũ; văn chương) như biên cương