oan tình
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- Noun:
- Being a victim of an injustice: The state or condition of having suffered a wrong or unfair treatment, often implying a false accusation or undeserved misfortune.
- A case of wrongful suffering: A specific situation or instance where someone is treated unjustly.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Anh ấy kể lại oan tình của mình cho mọi người nghe. (He told everyone about the injustice he suffered.)
- Lịch sử đầy rẫy những oan tình của người dân thường. (History is full of injustices suffered by ordinary people.)
- Cô ấy mang một oan tình lớn suốt mười năm. (She bore a great injustice for ten years.)
Advanced Usage
- "giải oan tình": to clear someone's name, to redress an injustice.
- Tòa án đã làm sáng tỏ sự thật để giải oan tình cho ông ấy. (The court clarified the truth to clear his name of the injustice.)
- "mắc oan tình": to be wronged, to fall victim to an injustice.
- Nhiều người lương thiện đã mắc oan tình trong vụ án đó. (Many honest people were wronged in that case.)
Variants and Related Words
- Oan (noun/adj): Injustice, wrongful; often used in compounds.
- Oan ức (noun): A sense of grievance from being wronged.
- Oan gia (noun): Adversary (often from a past conflict or injustice).
- Tình (noun): Here, it means "circumstance" or "case," not "feeling."
Synonyms
- Bất công (noun): Injustice, unfairness (more general).
- Oan ức (noun): Wrongful grievance, a sense of being unjustly treated.
- Nỗi oan (noun): The wrongful suffering.
Related Phrases
- Chịu oan: to endure an injustice.
- Ông ấy đã chịu oan nhiều năm mà không than phiền. (He endured the injustice for many years without complaint.)
- Thảm oan: tragic injustice.
- Vụ án là một thảm oan chưa được giải quyết. (The case is an unresolved tragic injustice.)
Related Idioms
- Oan Thị Kính: Derived from a famous Vietnamese folk tale about a woman wrongly accused, symbolizing profound and tragic injustice.
- Số phận của cô ấy như Oan Thị Kính vậy. (Her fate is like that of Thị Kính, a symbol of wrongful suffering.)
- Oan như Thị Mầu: Derived from another folk character (Thị Mầu) often associated with false accusations or misunderstood actions, though with different connotations than Thị Kính.
- Anh ta bị buộc tội oan như Thị Mầu. (He was accused as wrongly as Thị Mầu.)
- Being victim of an injustice