Definition

1. Noun:

   • Great-grandchild: A person who is the child of one's grandchild, representing the fourth generation in a direct line of descent.
   • A traditional children's game: A game of skill, typically played by girls, involving tossing and catching small objects (like a ball or small stones) while picking up sticks or other items from the ground.

2. Verb:

   • To decant / to drain off: To carefully pour off a liquid, especially from a container holding a mixture of solids and liquids, leaving the solid part behind.
   • To pour (a liquid): To transfer a liquid from one container to another.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Great-grandchild):

  • Cụ tôi rất yêu quý đứa chắt. (My great-grandparent loves their great-grandchild dearly.)
  • Gia đình tôi đã có bốn đời: ông, cha, tôi, và chắt. (My family spans four generations: grandfather, father, me, and great-grandchild.)

• Noun (Game):

  • Các bé gái đang chơi đánh chắt ở sân. (The little girls are playing the traditional stick-and-ball game in the yard.)

• Verb (To decant):

  • Chị ấy chắt nước cơm ra để cơm khô hơn. (She decants the water from the cooking rice to make it drier.)
  • Anh ấy chắt rượu vang cẩn thận vào ly. (He carefully decants the wine into a glass.)

Advanced Usage

• The verb "chắt" often implies a careful, economical, or frugal action, extracting the last useful bit of something.
  • Bà tôi thường chắt nước luộc rau để làm canh. (My grandmother often saves the water from boiled vegetables to make soup.)

Variants and Related Words

• Chắt chiu (v): To save or hoard meticulously, often bit by bit.

  • Họ chắt chiu từng đồng để mua nhà. (They scrimped and saved every penny to buy a house.)

• Đánh chắt (v phrase): To play the traditional "chắt" game.

  • Trẻ em ngày xưa hay đánh chắt bằng những viên sỏi. (Children in the old days often played the game using small pebbles.)

Synonyms

• Great-grandchild: Fourth-generation descendant.
• To decant: To pour off, to drain, to siphon.
• To pour: To transfer liquid.

Related Idioms

• Chắt bóp: To be extremely frugal or stingy, to cut expenses to the bare minimum.

  • Cuộc sống khó khăn khiến họ phải chắt bóp từng khoản chi. (The difficult life forced them to pinch every penny.)

• Chắt lọc: To filter, to refine, to extract the essence (often used figuratively for ideas or information).

  • Nhà nghiên cứu chắt lọc thông tin từ nhiều nguồn. (The researcher filters information from many sources.)

noun

1. Great-grandchild
2. Game of skill with sticks and a ball

verb

1. To decant
   • chắt nước cơm
     to decant water from a cooking rice pot