Definition

1. Noun:
   • Bird: A warm-blooded vertebrate animal with feathers, wings, a beak, and typically the ability to fly.
   • (Vulgar, slang) Penis (of a child): A crude, informal term for a young boy's penis.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Bird):
  • Chim hót líu lo trên cành cây. (Birds are chirping merrily on the tree branch.)
  • Tôi thích ngắm nhìn những con chim bay trên bầu trời. (I enjoy watching birds fly in the sky.)
  • Chim có tổ, người có tông. (Birds have nests, people have ancestry. - A proverb about origins.)
• Noun (Slang):
  • Đứa trẻ khoe "chim" của nó. (The child showed off his "penis".) [Note: This usage is vulgar and informal.]

Advanced Usage

• "chim trời": Literally "sky bird"; used to refer to wild birds or something/someone free and untraceable.
  • Anh ấy đi như chim trời cá nước, biết đâu mà tìm. (He left like a bird in the sky and fish in the water, who knows where to find him.)
• "chim đầu đàn": Literally "the bird at the head of the flock"; metaphorically refers to the leader of a group or movement.
  • Ông ấy là chim đầu đàn trong phong trào cách mạng. (He was the leading figure in the revolutionary movement.)
• "đường chim bay": Literally "the bird's flight path"; means "as the crow flies," indicating the shortest straight-line distance between two points.
  • Hai thành phố cách nhau 100km đường chim bay. (The two cities are 100km apart as the crow flies.)

Variants and Related Words

• Chim chóc (n): A general, collective term for birds (often used in the plural sense).
  • Khu rừng này có rất nhiều chim chóc. (This forest has many birds.)
• Chim non (n): A young bird; a chick or nestling.
  • Tôi nhìn thấy một tổ chim non trong bụi cây. (I saw a nest of chicks in the bush.)
• Chim ưng (n): Falcon; hawk.
• Chim sẻ (n): Sparrow.
• Đi chim (v, slang): To go bird-watching.
• Chimera (n, from biology): A single organism composed of cells with distinct genotypes.

Synonyms

• Bird: loài chim, điểu (a more literary or formal term, often used in compound words).
  • Điểu cầm (birds in general, a formal term).

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Cá chậu chim lồng: Literally "fish in a bowl, bird in a cage"; describes a life without freedom, being confined or trapped.
  • Cuộc sống giàu sang nhưng lại là cá chậu chim lồng. (A wealthy life but one that is like a fish in a bowl and a bird in a cage.)
• Chim sa cá lặn: Literally "a bird diving down, a fish diving deep"; an idiom describing breathtaking, enchanting beauty (often of a woman) said to make birds and fish fall.
  • Vẻ đẹp chim sa cá lặn. (A beauty so enchanting it makes birds and fish fall.)
• Bóng chim tăm cá: Literally "the shadow of a bird, the bubble of a fish"; means something elusive, hard to find or track.
  • Tìm anh ấy khó như bắt bóng chim tăm cá. (Finding him is as hard as catching the shadow of a bird or the bubble of a fish.)
• Lông chim vỏ tỏi: Literally "bird feather, garlic peel"; refers to trivial, insignificant things.

noun

1. Bird
   • Tiếng Chim Trĩ
     Argus
   • chim có tổ, người có tông
     birds have nests, men have stock
   • ríu rít như đàn chim
     to twitter like a flock of birds
   • chim đầu đàn
     person in the lead (of a movement)
   • đường chim bay
     as the crow flies
   • cách nhau tám ki lô mét đường chim bay
     eight kilometers far from one another, as the crow flies
   • cá chậu chim lồng
     fish in bowl, bird in cage; behind prison bars