chầy

Thân thiện

Không chóng thì chầy, rồi mọi việc cũng sẽ ổn thôi.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Late, tardy, delayed: Describes something that happens after the expected or usual time. This is an archaic or literary usage.
   • Long (in duration): Describes a lengthy period of time.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Chẳng chóng thì chầy, mọi việc rồi cũng xong. (Sooner or later, everything will be finished.)
  • Anh ấy về nhà vào canh chầy. (He returned home in the late watch of the night.)
  • Bấy chầy vẫn chưa có tin tức gì. (For a long time now, there has been no news.)

Advanced Usage

• The word "chầy" is rarely used in modern, everyday Vietnamese outside of fixed expressions and literary contexts. Its primary function is within idioms.

Variants and Related Words

• Canh chầy (n): The late watch of the night; deep night.
• Chầy cối (n): This is a different, homophonous word meaning "mortar and pestle." It is unrelated to the temporal meaning of "chầy".

Common Phrases and Idioms

• Chẳng chóng thì chầy / Không chóng thì chầy: An idiom meaning "sooner or later," emphasizing that something will inevitably happen, though the timing is uncertain.
• Bấy chầy: A literary phrase meaning "for that long," "since long ago," or "all this time."

Synonyms

• Late: Tardy, delayed.
• Long: Lengthy, prolonged (in duration).

Antonyms

• Chóng: Quick, soon, early.

Học thuật

adj

1. Later
   • chẳng chóng thì chầy
     sooner or later
2. Long
   • bấy chầy
     for long, since long, ever since