con khăng

Hai đứa trẻ đang chơi con khăng trên sân đất.

Definitions

1. Noun:
   • A small stick or baton used in traditional Vietnamese children's games: "con khăng" refers specifically to a short, often wooden, stick used as a primary tool or target in certain folk games.
   • The game itself (by extension): The term can also refer to the traditional game played with these sticks, where players try to hit or flick them.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Bọn trẻ đang chơi con khăng ở sân đình. (The children are playing con khăng in the communal house yard.)
  • Nó tìm một cành cây khô để làm con khăng. (He looked for a dry branch to make a con khăng stick.)

Advanced Usage

• "đánh khăng": to play the game of .
  • Ông nội tôi ngày xưa thường đánh khăng với bạn bè. (My grandfather used to play con khăng with his friends in the old days.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cái khăng: Another way to refer to the stick, using the classifier "cái".
  • Nó đang cầm cái khăng trên tay. (He is holding the khăng stick in his hand.)
• Trò chơi khăng: The game of .
  • Trò chơi khăng ngày càng ít trẻ em chơi. (Fewer and fewer children play the game of khăng.)

Synonyms

• Que gỗ: wooden stick (a more general term).
• Đũa tre: bamboo chopstick (can be used similarly in some contexts).

Related Phrases

• Chơi khăng: to play (similar to "đánh khăng").
  • Cuối tuần, lũ trẻ trong xóm lại tụ tập chơi khăng. (On weekends, the neighborhood children gather to play khăng.)

Related Idioms

(This specific word is not commonly found in idiomatic expressions. Its usage is almost exclusively literal, pertaining to the game or its equipment.)