quỳ

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Một học sinh dùng giấy quỳ để kiểm tra dung dịch trong phòng thí nghiệm.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To kneel: To rest one's body on the knees, often with the lower legs and feet flat on the ground or floor, typically as a gesture of respect, submission, worship, or deep supplication.

2. Noun:

   • Litmus: A water-soluble mixture of dyes extracted from lichens, used as a pH indicator. It turns red in acidic solutions and blue in alkaline solutions.
   • Sunflower / Heliotrope: (Literary/Botanical) A term for the sunflower plant, named for its tendency to turn toward the sun.

Usage Examples

• Verb (to kneel):
  • Người lính quỳ xuống trước tượng đài. (The soldier knelt down before the monument.)
  • Cô ấy quỳ cầu nguyện. (She kneels to pray.)
• Noun (litmus):
  • Giấy quỳ được dùng để thử độ pH. (Litmus paper is used to test pH.)
• Noun (sunflower):
  • Cánh đồng quỳ vàng rực rỡ. (The field of sunflowers is brilliantly yellow.)

Advanced Usage

• "quỳ gối": To kneel (emphasizing the action of going down on one's knees).
  • Anh ta quỳ gối xin lỗi. (He went down on his knees to apologize.)
• "vàng quỳ": Gold leaf; gold beaten into extremely thin sheets used for gilding objects like furniture or parallel sentences panels ().
  • Chiếc hộp được trang trí bằng vàng quỳ. (The box is decorated with gold leaf.)

Variants and Related Words

• Quỳ lạy (v): To kneel and bow/prostrate oneself (a deep gesture of worship or reverence).
• Giấy quỳ (n): Litmus paper.
• Hoa quỳ (n): Sunflower (the flower).

Synonyms

• Kneel: genuflect, get down on one's knees.
• Litmus: pH indicator.
• Sunflower: heliotrope.

Related Idioms

• Quỳ sụp xuống: To collapse to one's knees (indicating extreme emotion, exhaustion, or submission).
  • Nghe tin dữ, bà quỳ sụp xuống. (Upon hearing the bad news, she collapsed to her knees.)

Học thuật

1. Sunflower, heliotrope
2. Litmus
   • Giấy quỳ
     Litmus paper
3. Kneel
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