duyên hài
Definition
- Noun:
- Marital harmony; conjugal bond: "duyên hài" refers to the harmonious union or bond between husband and wife, specifically the fate or affinity that brings and keeps them together in a happy marriage. This is an archaic literary term.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Họ sống với nhau trong duyên hài trọn đời. (They lived together in lifelong marital harmony.)
- Câu chuyện cổ tích thường kết thúc bằng duyên hài của đôi trai tài gái sắc. (Fairy tales often end with the conjugal union of the talented young man and the beautiful maiden.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is primarily found in classical Vietnamese poetry, literature, or formal, stylized writing. It is not used in everyday modern conversation.
- It often carries a sense of predestined or fated love and a blissful, lasting marriage.
Variants and Related Words
- Duyên phận (n): fate/destiny in love or marriage; a more common and modern term for romantic fate.
- Lương duyên (n): good marital fate; a blessed or fortunate marriage union (also literary).
- Hôn nhân (n): marriage; the modern, general term for the institution of marriage.
Synonyms
- Ái tình (n): love, affection (more general, not specific to marriage).
- Phu thê (n): husband and wife; the couple (emphasizes the roles, not the bond itself).
Related Phrases/Idioms
- Bách niên giai lão: (Idiom) A wish for a couple to live together until they are one hundred years old; "happily ever after".
- Duyên nợ: (Compound) Often translated as "love and debt"; implies a complex, binding relationship of fate that has both positive ("duyên") and obligatory or challenging ("nợ") aspects.