cảnh
Noun: 1. Sight, View, Scenery, Landscape: The overall visual appearance of a place or natural environment. This meaning emphasizes what is seen. 2. Scene (in a play, film, or real life): A specific part of a play, movie, or a real-life event, often with a continuous action or setting. It can also refer to a particular situation or incident. 3. Ornament, Decorative Object: Something grown or arranged primarily for visual pleasure and decoration. 4. State, Situation, Circumstances: The particular condition someone or something is in at a specific time.
Adjective: 1. Ornamental, Decorative: Used for the purpose of decoration or visual enjoyment. 2. (Medical) Jugular: Relating to the neck or throat (used in specific anatomical terms like "động mạch cảnh" - jugular artery).
- As a Noun (Sight/View):
- Cảnh ở đây thật yên bình. (The scenery here is very peaceful.)
- Tôi thích ngắm cảnh hoàng hôn. (I like to watch the sunset view.)
- As a Noun (Scene):
- Vở kịch có ba hồi và mười cảnh. (The play has three acts and ten scenes.)
- Cảnh chia tay trong phim rất cảm động. (The farewell scene in the movie was very touching.)
- Đó là một cảnh hỗn loạn. (That was a chaotic scene.)
- As a Noun (Ornament):
- Ông ấy trồng nhiều cây cảnh. (He grows many ornamental trees.)
- Họ nuôi cá cảnh trong bể. (They keep ornamental fish in a tank.)
- As a Noun (State/Situation):
- Gia đình họ rơi vào cảnh khó khăn. (Their family fell into difficult circumstances.)
- Thật là một cảnh tượng đáng buồn. (It's truly a sad sight/situation.)
- As an Adjective (Ornamental):
- Họ có một khu vườn cảnh rất đẹp. (They have a very beautiful ornamental garden.)
- Đây là giống hoa cảnh, không phải để ăn. (This is an ornamental flower variety, not for eating.)
- "cảnh giác": to be vigilant, alert (a compound word where "cảnh" implies a state of watchfulness).
- "cảnh sát": police (a compound word where "cảnh" relates to observing/guarding order).
- "cảnh báo": to warn, warning (a compound word where "cảnh" implies giving notice of danger).
- "cảnh ngộ": plight, predicament (a literary term for a difficult situation).
- "cảnh huống": circumstance, scenario (a formal term for a specific situation).
- Phong cảnh (n): Landscape, scenery (emphasizes natural beauty).
- Cảnh vật (n): Scenery, surroundings (things that make up a view).
- Cảnh quan (n): Landscape (often used in urban or environmental planning).
- Cảnh tượng (n): Spectacle, scene (a sight that is impressive or shocking).
- Tình cảnh (n): Situation, plight (focuses on the emotional or difficult state).
- Hoàn cảnh (n): Circumstances, conditions (the overall situation affecting someone's life).
- For Sight/View: Quang cảnh, khung cảnh.
- For Scene (in art): Phân cảnh, lớp (in theater).
- For Situation: Tình thế, hoàn cảnh, tình huống.
- "Cảnh đẹp như tranh": Scenery as beautiful as a painting.
- "Cảnh bần cùng": State of destitution, extreme poverty.
- "Đổi cảnh": To change the scene/scenery (in theater or figuratively).
- "Cảnh giác cao độ": To be on high alert.
- "Lâm vào cảnh...": To fall into a state of... (e.g., "lâm vào cảnh nợ nần" - to fall into debt).
- Sight, scenery, landscape
- ngắm cảnh đêm trăngto contemplate a moon-light scenery
- cảnh ngày mùa nhộn nhịp ở nông thônthe sight of bustling harvesting days in the countryside
- Ornament
- nuôi cá vàng làm cảnhto keep gold fish for ornament
- cây cảnhan ornament tree, a trained tree
- chậu cảnhan ornament tree pot, a trained tree pot
- Scene
- kịch một hồi hai cảnha one-act two-scene play
- Shot (with a cine-camera)