Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Urgent and important: Describes a matter, situation, or task that is both critically pressing and of great significance, requiring immediate attention and action.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Đây là một vấn đề khẩn yếu. (This is an urgent and important issue.)
  • Chúng tôi nhận được chỉ thị khẩn yếu từ trụ sở chính. (We received an urgent and important directive from headquarters.)
  • Công việc khẩn yếu cần được giải quyết trước. (Urgent and important work must be handled first.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in formal, official, or military contexts to classify documents, orders, or missions.
  • "Văn kiện khẩn yếu" typically refers to a confidential, urgent, and important document.

Variants and Related Words

• Khẩn (adj): urgent, pressing.
  • công văn khẩn (urgent dispatch)
• Yếu (adj): important, critical, vital (when used in formal/compound contexts, though it can mean 'weak' in other contexts).
  • yếu điểm (vital point, weakness)
• Khẩn cấp (adj): emergency, urgent (emphasizes immediacy more than importance).
  • tình huống khẩn cấp (emergency situation)

Synonyms

• Critical: of the utmost importance and urgency.
• Pressing: requiring immediate action.
• Imperative: of vital importance; crucial.

Related Idioms

• While "khẩn yếu" itself is not typically part of a common idiom, it is a standard term in formal phrases such as:
  • nhiệm vụ khẩn yếu (urgent and important mission)
  • tin tức khẩn yếu (urgent and important news)

1. Urgent and important