thiếp
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
Noun:
- Card: A small, flat, usually rectangular piece of stiff paper or cardboard, often used for social purposes. This includes visiting cards, invitation cards, greeting cards, and announcement cards.
- Concubine: (Historical/archaic) A woman who lives with a man and has a recognized social status lower than that of a wife.
Verb:
- To gild / To plate: To cover an object with a thin layer of gold, silver, or another metal.
- To lose consciousness / To fall into a stupor: To become unconscious or fall into a deep, lethargic sleep, often due to extreme fatigue or illness.
Usage Examples
- Noun (Card):
- Anh ấy để lại thiếp danh của mình trên bàn. (He left his visiting card on the table.)
- Chúng tôi vừa nhận được thiếp mời đám cưới. (We just received a wedding invitation card.)
- Noun (Concubine):
- Trong xã hội phong kiến, một người đàn ông có thể có một vợ và nhiều thiếp. (In feudal society, a man could have one wife and several concubines.)
- Verb (To gild):
- Người thợ thiếp vàng lên khung ảnh. (The artisan gilds the picture frame.)
- Verb (To lose consciousness):
- Cô ấy mệt quá nên thiếp đi trên ghế. (She was so tired she lost consciousness/fell into a stupor in the chair.)
Advanced Usage
- Historical First-Person Pronoun: In classical literature or historical contexts, "thiếp" was used by a woman to humbly refer to herself ("I", "me") when addressing a man or her husband.
- Thiếp xin chàng hãy thứ lỗi. (I [your humble wife] beg for your forgiveness, my lord.)
Variants and Related Words
- Thiếp mời (n): Invitation card.
- Thiếp danh / Danh thiếp (n): Visiting card, business card.
- Thiếp báo tin (n): Announcement card (e.g., for a birth or funeral).
- Thiếp vàng (v): To gild.
- Thiếp bạc (v): To silver, to plate with silver.
Synonyms
- Card: visiting card, invitation, note.
- Concubine: secondary wife (historical).
- To gild: to coat with gold, to adorn.
- To lose consciousness: to faint, to black out, to swoon (literary).
Related Idioms
- Năm thê bảy thiếp: (Idiom, historical) Literally "five wives, seven concubines"; used to describe a man with many wives and concubines, implying a polygamous household.
noun
- card (visiting, wedding, invitation,.) concubine
verb
- to gild to lose consciousness