Definition

1. 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.

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