rền

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Một chiếc bánh chưng rền được cắt ra trên đĩa.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Evenly soft and sticky: Used to describe food, especially glutinous rice products, that has a uniformly soft, tender, and pleasantly chewy texture throughout.
   • Resonant and continuous: Describes a deep, booming, or rumbling sound that repeats in successive, prolonged waves or peals.

2. Adverb:

   • In successive rounds/peals: Indicates an action performed repeatedly or continuously in a series.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Texture):
  • Bánh chưng rền. (The sticky rice square cake is evenly soft.)
• Adjective (Sound):
  • Sấm rền. (Thunder rumbled in successive peals.)
  • Súng rền. (The guns boomed in successive salvoes.)
• Adverb:
  • Đi chơi rền. (To go out for successive rounds of walking/leisure.)

Advanced Usage

• The word "rền" is often used in specific, somewhat literary or descriptive contexts rather than in everyday conversation. It vividly evokes a sensory experience, either of texture or sound.

Variants and Related Words

• Rền rĩ (adj/ph.v): To whine or moan continuously in a plaintive, drawn-out manner.
  • Đứa trẻ rền rĩ đòi mua đồ chơi. (The child whined continuously, demanding to buy a toy.)
• Rền vang (v): To resound, to echo loudly and continuously.
  • Tiếng chuông rền vang khắp thung lũng. (The bell resounded throughout the valley.)

Synonyms

• For texture: Uniformly soft, tender, chewy.
• For sound: Rumbling, booming, reverberating, rolling.

Related Idioms

• Chẵn rền, lẻ rền: A gambling term from the game "xóc đĩa" (a dice/bowl shaking game), referring to several consecutive rounds resulting in either "even" or "odd" outcomes.
  • Hôm qua nó bắt cặp chẵn rền. (Yesterday, he bet on and won several consecutive even rounds.)

Học thuật

1. Bánh chưng rền
2. Evenly soft sticky rice square cakes
3. In successive salvoes (rounds, peals)
   • Sấm rền
     Thunder in sucessive peals
   • Súng rền
     Guns boomed in sucessive salvoes
   • Đi chơi rền
     To go for successcive rounds of walk