Definition

1. Verb:
   • To gain insight or understanding through deep observation, reflection, and personal experience: "Chiêm nghiệm" refers to the process of contemplating, observing, and internalizing experiences or phenomena to derive profound, often personal, knowledge or wisdom. It implies a thoughtful, experiential learning process beyond simple observation.

Usage

• General Usage: The verb "chiêm nghiệm" is used to describe the act of learning from life, events, or nature through careful observation and personal reflection. It often conveys a sense of accumulated wisdom.
• Grammar: It is a transitive verb, often followed by a direct object indicating what is being contemplated (e.g., chiêm nghiệm cuộc sống, chiêm nghiệm thời tiết).

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Những bậc cao niên thường có nhiều điều để chiêm nghiệm về cuộc đời. (Elders often have many things to contemplate and learn from about life.)
  • Qua chuyến đi, anh ấy đã chiêm nghiệm được nhiều bài học quý giá. (Through the trip, he gained profound insight into many valuable lessons.)
  • Người xưa chiêm nghiệm hiện tượng tự nhiên để dự đoán thời tiết. (People in the past closely observed and learned from natural phenomena to predict the weather.)

Advanced Usage

• "chiêm nghiệm bản thân": to introspect, to reflect on oneself.
  • Sau thất bại, cô ấy dành thời gian để chiêm nghiệm bản thân. (After the failure, she took time for introspection.)
• "đúc kết từ chiêm nghiệm": to summarize/conclude from personal experience and reflection.
  • Những câu tục ngữ này được đúc kết từ chiêm nghiệm của ông cha ta. (These proverbs are distilled from the experiential wisdom of our ancestors.)

Variants and Related Words

• Suy nghiệm (verb): to ponder and verify through thought; a close synonym emphasizing the cognitive process of reflection.
• Trải nghiệm (verb/noun): to experience / an experience. While "trải nghiệm" focuses on the act of undergoing something, "chiêm nghiệm" focuses on the subsequent deep reflection on that experience.
• Ngẫm nghiệm (verb): to meditate on, to ponder deeply over; similar to "chiêm nghiệm" but can imply a quieter, more solitary reflection.

Synonyms

• Ngẫm nghĩ: to ponder, to think deeply.
• Suy ngẫm: to reflect, to contemplate.
• Thấu hiểu qua trải nghiệm: to understand through experience.

Related Phrases/Idioms

• "Đi một ngày đàng, học một sàng khôn": This Vietnamese idiom (Travel a day's road, learn a basketful of wisdom) encapsulates the concept of "chiêm nghiệm" — gaining wisdom through direct experience and observation of the world.

verb

1. To be experienced in observing (something)
   • những người làm nghề đánh cá biển rất giỏi chiêm nghiệm thời tiết
     the sea fishing people are very experienced in observing the weather