Definition

1. Noun:
   • Summer heat: The hot weather characteristic of the summer season, especially in the context of traditional Vietnamese climate descriptions. This is an archaic or literary term.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trời đang vào độ hạ thử. (The weather is in the period of summer heat.)
  • Hạ thử oi bức khiến ai cũng mệt mỏi. (The sweltering summer heat makes everyone tired.)

Advanced Usage

• "giữa hạ thử": in the midst of the summer heat.
  • Giữa hạ thử, tìm bóng cây là điều ai cũng muốn. (In the midst of the summer heat, finding shade under a tree is what everyone desires.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nắng nóng (n): hot sunshine; a more common, modern synonym for hot weather.
• Oi bức (adj): sweltering, stifling (often used to describe humid heat).
• Hạ (n): summer (the season).

Synonyms

• Cái nóng mùa hè: summer heat.
• Thời tiết nóng bức: hot weather.

Related Idioms

• Nắng như đổ lửa: The sun is like pouring fire (idiom describing intense heat).
  • Trưa hè, nắng như đổ lửa. (At summer noon, the sun is like pouring fire.)
• Nóng như lửa đốt: Hot as if being burned by fire.
  • Cơn hạ thử khiến phố phường nóng như lửa đốt. (The spell of summer heat makes the streets hot as if being burned by fire.)