hắt hiu
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- Intransitive Verb:
- To blow gently (of wind): Describes a light, gentle, and often intermittent movement of air.
- To flicker, to waver (of light): Describes a weak, unsteady light that seems to tremble or flutter, often due to a gentle breeze or its own weakness.
Usage
- As a verb describing wind: Used to depict a very soft, faint breeze, often carrying a sense of loneliness or desolation.
- As a verb describing light: Used to depict the flickering of a dim light source, like a candle or a weak lamp, emphasizing fragility and solitude.
- Tone: The word inherently carries a poetic, melancholic, or lonely nuance. It is rarely used in casual, everyday conversation and is more common in literary, poetic, or descriptive contexts.
Usage Examples
Describing wind:
- Ngoài kia, gió heo may hắt hiu. (Out there, the autumn wind blows gently/forlornly.)
- Căn nhà nhỏ đơn độc giữa cánh đồng, gió chiều hắt hiu thổi qua. (The small house stood alone in the field, the evening wind blowing faintly past it.)
Describing light:
- Trong túp lều, ngọn đèn dầu hắt hiu. (Inside the hut, the oil lamp flickered weakly.)
- Ánh nến hắt hiu trong đêm khuya thanh vắng. (The candlelight flickered in the quiet late night.)
Advanced Usage
- The word hắt hiu is often used to set a mood or atmosphere, typically one of sadness, loneliness, nostalgia, or quiet desolation. It is a key word in Vietnamese poetry and literature for creating imagery.
- It can be used metaphorically to describe something fragile, fading, or lacking vitality.
- Hạnh phúc hắt hiu (A flickering/fragile happiness)
- Hy vọng hắt hiu (A faint/glimmering hope)
Variants and Related Words
- Hiu hắt: This is a variant form with the same meaning and usage as hắt hiu. It is also literary and describes a gentle, desolate wind or a flickering light.
- Gió thu hiu hắt. (The autumn wind blows desolately.)
- Hiu quạnh: An adjective meaning desolate, lonely, deserted. It shares the root "hiu" and conveys a similar feeling of solitude.
- Lắt lay: A verb meaning to sway unsteadily, to totter. It can describe physical movement (like a tree) and sometimes overlaps with the flickering sense of hắt hiu.
Synonyms
- Thổi nhẹ: To blow gently (more neutral, less literary than hắt hiu).
- Lập lòe: To flicker, to glimmer intermittently (often for light, can be more playful or mysterious, less melancholic than hắt hiu).
- Chập chờn: To flicker, to be unsteady (for light or figurative things like memories; can imply inconsistency).
Related Phrases / Idioms
- Gió hắt hiu: A gentle, lonesome breeze.
- Đèn hắt hiu: A flickering, dim lamp.
- While hắt hiu itself is not typically part of a larger fixed idiom, its usage is idiomatic to Vietnamese poetic description.
verb
- to blow gently; to flicker
- ngọn gió hắt hiua light breezen