rẽ
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Definition
- Verb:
- To turn (while moving): To change direction while walking, driving, cycling, etc.
- To part; to separate; to divide: To push apart or move things to the sides to create a path, or to divide something into sections.
- (Agriculture) To sharecrop; to cultivate on a share basis: To farm on someone else's land for a share of the harvest.
Usage Examples
- Verb (to turn):
- Đến ngã tư, hãy rẽ phải. (At the intersection, turn right.)
- Xe buýt rẽ vào trạm. (The bus turned into the station.)
- Verb (to part/separate):
- Người lính rẽ đám lau sậy để tiến lên. (The soldier parted the reeds to advance.)
- Cô ấy rẽ tóc về một bên. (She parts her hair to one side.)
Advanced Usage
- "rẽ sóng": to cleave the waves (to cut through water while moving).
- Con tàu rẽ sóng ra khơi. (The ship cleaves the waves heading out to sea.)
- "rẽ đám đông": to make one's way through a crowd.
- Anh ấy phải rẽ đám đông để tìm bạn. (He had to make his way through the crowd to find his friend.)
- "rẽ ngang": to turn off (the main path); to divert.
- Câu chuyện bỗng rẽ ngang sang một hướng bất ngờ. (The story suddenly took an unexpected turn.)
Variants and Related Words
- Chia rẽ (v): to divide, to split (often used for relationships or groups).
- Những bất đồng có thể chia rẽ một gia đình. (Disagreements can divide a family.)
- Đường rẽ / Ngã rẽ (n): a fork in the road; a turn-off; a junction.
- Chúng tôi đã đi sai ở một ngã rẽ. (We took a wrong turn at a fork in the road.)
- Cấy rẽ / Nuôi rẽ (v): to sharecrop (rice cultivation) / to raise livestock on a share basis.
- Ông ấy sống bằng nghề cấy rẽ. (He makes a living by sharecropping.)
Synonyms
- Turn: to change direction.
- Part: to separate or move apart.
- Divide: to separate into parts.
- Cleave: to split or cut through.
Related Idioms
- Rẽ thúy chia uyên: (Literally: to part the kingfisher and split the pair) To break up a loving couple; to cause separation.
- Số phận rẽ thúy chia uyên đôi trẻ. (Fate parted the young lovers.)