hàm tiếu

Thân thiện

Những nụ đào trong vườn đã hàm tiếu trước gió xuân.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Beginning to open; starting to bloom: Used specifically to describe a flower bud that has started to open or unfurl its petals, but is not yet fully open. It indicates the initial, often subtle, stage of blooming.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Những nụ hồng đã hàm tiếu trong sương sớm. (The rose buds were beginning to open in the early morning dew.)
  • Chúng tôi đến vườn đúng lúc hoa đào hàm tiếu. (We arrived at the garden just as the peach blossoms were starting to bloom.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is primarily used in literary, poetic, or descriptive botanical contexts to evoke a delicate and precise image of incipient beauty. It is not typically used in everyday conversation.

Variants and Related Words

• Nụ hàm tiếu (n): a bud that is beginning to open.
  • Người nghệ nhân cắm vào bình một cành với vài nụ hàm tiếu. (The arranger placed a branch with a few beginning-to-open buds in the vase.)

Synonyms

• Incipient: just beginning to appear or develop.
• Unfurling: opening or spreading out from a curled-up state.
• Burgeoning: beginning to grow or increase rapidly; flourishing (though this is more general than the specific floral sense of ).

Related Idioms

• While there are no direct idioms with , the concept is often associated with poetic metaphors for youth, potential, or the early stages of development.
  • Tuổi xuân như nụ hoa hàm tiếu. (Youth is like a flower bud beginning to open.)

Học thuật

1. Begin to open (nói về nụ hoa)