chẻ
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Definition
- Verb:
- To split, to cleave: To separate something lengthwise along its grain or natural line using a sharp tool, creating pieces, strips, or slivers.
- To split hairs (figurative): To make excessively fine distinctions; to nitpick.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Chị ấy đang chẻ rau muống để nấu canh. (She is splitting water morning-glory to cook soup.)
- Người thợ chẻ tre thành những thanh mỏng để đan lát. (The craftsman cleaves bamboo into thin strips for weaving.)
- Đừng có chẻ sợi tóc làm tư nữa, vấn đề rất đơn giản. (Stop splitting hairs, the issue is very simple.)
Advanced Usage
- "thế chẻ tre": An impetuous, unstoppable, and overwhelming advance (like splitting bamboo).
- Đội quân tiến lên với thế chẻ tre. (The army advanced with an impetuous, overwhelming force.)
Variants and Related Words
- Chẻ lạt (verb phrase): To split bamboo into thin, flexible tapes used for tying.
- Ông cụ ngồi chẻ lạt để buộc bánh chưng. (The old man sat splitting bamboo tapes to tie sticky rice cakes.)
- Chẻ củi (verb phrase): To split firewood.
- Công việc buổi sáng của anh ấy là chẻ củi. (His morning chore is splitting firewood.)
Synonyms
- Bổ: To chop, to split (often with an axe, commonly for wood).
- Tách: To separate, to split (more general, not necessarily by cutting).
- Xẻ: To saw, to rip (lengthwise, often for timber or large objects).
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- Chẻ ra: To split something open/out.
- Anh ta chẻ quả dừa ra để lấy nước. (He split the coconut open to get the water.)
Related Idioms
- Chẻ sợi tóc làm tư: Literally "to split a hair into four"; to nitpick, to make overly fine distinctions.
- Anh ấy luôn chẻ sợi tóc làm tư trong các cuộc tranh luận. (He always splits hairs in arguments.)
verb
- To split, to cleave
- chẻ rau muốngto split water morning-glory
- chẻ lạtto split bamboo into tape
- chẻ sợi tóc làm tưto split hairs
- thế chẻ trean impetuous advance