lông mũi

Anh ấy soi gương và nhìn thấy lông mũi của mình.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Nose hair: The short, fine hairs that grow inside the human nostrils.
   • Vibrissa (technical/biological term): In a broader zoological context, the stiff, tactile hairs found around the nostrils or on the face of many mammals.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Anh ấy cần cắt tỉa lông mũi. (He needs to trim his nose hair.)
  • Lông mũi có chức năng lọc không khí. (Nose hair has the function of filtering the air.)

Advanced Usage

• "Lông mũi dài": A common phrase meaning "long nose hair," often used to comment on someone's untrimmed appearance.
  • Ông ấy để lông mũi dài trông không được gọn gàng. (He has long nose hair, which doesn't look tidy.)

Variants and Related Words

• Lông (n): A general term for hair, fur, or feather.
• Lông mi (n): Eyelash.
• Lông mày (n): Eyebrow.
• Vibrissa (n): The scientific/English term for a stiff sensory hair, such as a whisker on a cat or the hairs inside a human nose.

Synonyms

• Tơ mũi: A less common, more poetic synonym for nose hair (literally "nose silk").

Related Phrases

• "Lòi lông mũi" / "Thò lông mũi ra": An idiom meaning to be overly conspicuous, to meddle obtrusively, or to have one's nose hair showing (literally or figuratively).
  • Đừng có thò lông mũi vào chuyện của người khác. (Don't stick your nose into other people's business. / Don't meddle obtrusively in others' affairs.)