Definition

1. 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.)

1. Being victim of an injustice