Definition

1. Noun:
   • Facial hair; beard and moustache: The collective term for hair that grows on a man's face, including the beard, moustache, and sideburns. It refers to facial hair in a general sense.
   • Trivial details; unimportant additions: A figurative meaning referring to extraneous, minor, or superfluous details that are not essential to the main point.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Facial Hair):

  • Anh ta để râu ria dài. (He is growing long facial hair.)
  • Râu ria của ông ấy đã bạc trắng. (His beard and moustache have turned white.)

• Noun (Trivial Details):

  • Hãy tập trung vào vấn đề chính, đừng quan tâm mấy cái râu ria. (Focus on the main issue, don't worry about the trivial details.)
  • Bài báo này có quá nhiều thông tin râu ria. (This article has too much extraneous information.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in a dismissive or colloquial manner when referring to insignificant aspects of a matter.
• It can imply that something is untidy, excessive, or unnecessarily complicated when not referring to literal hair.

Variants and Related Words

• Râu (n): Specifically refers to a beard.

  • Ông ấy cạo râu mỗi sáng. (He shaves his beard every morning.)

• Ria (n): Specifically refers to a moustache.

  • Anh ấy nuôi ria mép. (He is growing a moustache.)

Synonyms

• Facial hair: General term for hair on the face.
• Trivia / minutiae: Minor or precise details.
• Extraneous details: Details that are irrelevant or not part of the main subject.

Related Idioms

• Râu ria xồm xoàm: (lit. shaggy/bushy beard and moustache) Describes very unkempt, thick, or messy facial hair. Figuratively, it can describe a situation cluttered with excessive, confusing details.

  • Gương mặt anh ta với bộ râu ria xồm xoàm. (His face with a shaggy beard.)
  • Kế hoạch này râu ria xồm xoàm quá, khó hiểu. (This plan has too many messy details; it's hard to understand.)

• Bỏ râu ria đi: (lit. cut off the beard and moustache) Means to eliminate the unimportant details; to get to the core of the matter.

  • Bỏ hết râu ria đi, vấn đề chính là gì? (Cut out all the trivial details, what is the main problem?)

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