hon hỏn
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Bright red, reddish: Describes a vivid, fresh red color, often used for the skin of a newborn baby or something with a similar fresh, reddish hue.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Đứa trẻ mới sinh có làn da đỏ hon hỏn. (The newborn baby has a bright reddish skin.)
- Những quả cà chua chín đỏ hon hỏn. (The ripe tomatoes are a vivid red.)
Advanced Usage
- "đỏ hon hỏn": This is the most common collocation, intensifying the adjective "đỏ" (red) to mean a fresh, bright, and often healthy-looking red.
- Đôi má cô bé ửng lên đỏ hon hỏn vì trời lạnh. (The little girl's cheeks flushed a bright red from the cold.)
Variants and Related Words
- Hỏn: The root word, also an adjective meaning reddish. "Hon hỏn" is the reduplicative form (từ láy), which adds emphasis and a more vivid, descriptive quality.
- Ửng đỏ: to flush red, to glow red.
- Hồng hào: rosy, ruddy (often describing healthy skin).
Synonyms
- Đỏ au: bright red, glowing red.
- Đỏ ửng: flushed red.
Notes on Usage
- "Hon hỏn" is primarily used in descriptive, literary, or colloquial Vietnamese. It is not typically used in formal technical writing.
- Its usage is almost exclusively tied to describing colors, particularly shades of red on living things (skin, cheeks, fruit).
- As a reduplicative word (từ láy), it carries a nuanced, expressive meaning that the single root word "hỏn" does not fully convey.
- xem hỏn (láy)