Definition

Noun: The period of time at the beginning of the day when the sky becomes light, just after dawn; early morning.

Usage

• tảng sáng is used to describe the specific time of day when night has ended and full daylight has arrived, but it is still very early. It indicates a clearer, brighter state than 'dawn' ( or ), which refers to the first light.
• It often appears in contexts describing the start of an activity very early in the day.
• Example: (We departed at early morning.)
• Example: Tảng sáng hôm nay trời rất trong. (The sky was very clear this early morning.)

Advanced Usage

• tang tảng sáng: A reduplicative form used to emphasize the very first moments of morning light, closer to "the crack of dawn" or "the first glimmer of dawn."
  • Example: Ông ấy dậy từ tang tảng sáng để ra đồng. (He got up at the crack of dawn to go to the fields.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bình minh / Rạng đông (n): Dawn, daybreak. Refers to the period when the first light appears on the horizon before the sun rises.
• Sáng sớm (n): Early morning. A more general term for the early part of the morning.
• Hừng đông (n): Dawn, sunrise. A literary term for dawn.

Synonyms

• Dawn (n): The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise.
• Daybreak (n): The time in the morning when light first appears.
• Early morning (n): The period of time at the beginning of the day.
• Sunup (n, informal): Sunrise; the time in the morning when the sun appears.

Related Idioms

• Mờ sáng: Dim/early light. Describes the time when it is just beginning to get light.
• Sáng rõ: Fully light, clear daylight. This is the state described by tảng sáng.

noun

1. dawn, early morning