cấn

Thân thiện

Một hòn đá nhỏ cấn dưới chân cái ghế.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • Dregs, sediment, lees: The solid residue that settles at the bottom of a liquid.
   • The third trigram (sign) of the Bát Quái (Eight Trigrams): In ancient Vietnamese cosmology, one of the eight fundamental symbols.

2. Verb:

   • To be annoyed or feel discomfort (by something hard or protruding): To experience physical irritation or pain because an object is pressing against the body.
   • To obstruct, to hinder: To block or get in the way of something.
   • To deduct, to offset (a debt or amount): To subtract one amount from another, especially in a financial context.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • Phải lọc cho hết cấn trước khi uống. (You must filter out all the dregs before drinking.)
  • Quẻ Cấn tượng trưng cho núi. (The Gen trigram symbolizes the mountain.)

• Verb:

  • Nằm trên giường có hòn sỏi cấn vào lưng. (Lying on a bed with a pebble pressing annoyingly into one's back.)
  • Cột điện cấn ngay lối ra vào. (The electricity pole obstructs the entrance.)
  • Số tiền này sẽ được cấn trừ vào khoản nợ cũ. (This amount of money will be deducted from the old debt.)

Advanced Usage

• "Cấn cổ": To have something stuck in one's throat (literally or figuratively).

  • Câu nói đó khiến anh ấy cấn cổ, không thể đáp lại. (That statement left him speechless, unable to reply.)

• "Cấn" (in dialectal usage): Refers to a pregnant female animal.

  • Con lợn nái đã cấn. (The sow is pregnant.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cặn (n): A more common synonym for "dregs, sediment".

  • Cặn cà phê (coffee grounds)

• Cản (v): To prevent, to obstruct. (Note: Different tone and often used for active prevention).

  • Cản trở giao thông (to obstruct traffic)

Synonyms

• Lắng (v): To settle (as in sediment).
• Vướng (v): To get caught on, to be hindered by.
• Trừ (v): To subtract, to deduct.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Cấn trừ: To offset, to deduct.
  • Hai bên thống nhất cấn trừ các khoản cho nhau. (The two parties agreed to offset their respective amounts.)

Related Idioms

• Cấn tức: To feel stifled or choked with anger/emotion (less common).
  • Nghe tin ấy, ông ấy cấn tức không nói nên lời. (Hearing that news, he was choked with emotion and couldn't speak.)

Học thuật

noun

1. The third sign of the eight-sign figure
2. Dregs, lees, sediment

verb

1. To be annoyed (by something pricking)
   • hai tấm ván kê không bằng, nằm cấn đau lưng lắm
     as the two boards were unevenly placed, he was annoyed and felt a pain in his back
2. To obstruct, to hinder
   • cấn ngôi nhà nên không thấy rõ cánh đồng
     because a house obstructed his view, he could not have a clear sight of the field
3. To deduct