thất truyền

Thân thiện

Người thợ gốm già đang tỉ mỉ truyền dạy kỹ thuật xoay gốm cho người cháu để nghề truyền thống không bị thất truyền.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Lost (to time/obliterated): Refers to a skill, knowledge, tradition, or artifact that has not been passed down and has been lost to subsequent generations. It implies a permanent break in the chain of transmission.
   • Extinct (in terms of knowledge/craft): Describes something, especially a technique or practice, that is no longer known or practiced because the lineage of teaching was interrupted.

2. Verb (intransitive):

   • To become lost (to posterity): The process or state of a piece of knowledge or a tradition failing to be handed down and thus disappearing.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Nghề đan lát cổ truyền ấy gần như đã thất truyền. (That traditional weaving craft has almost been lost.)
  • Đó là một bài thuốc nam thất truyền. (That is a lost Southern herbal remedy.)
• Verb:
  • Tiếc là kỹ thuật đó đã thất truyền từ lâu. (Unfortunately, that technique became lost long ago.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in formal, academic, or cultural discussions to lament the disappearance of intangible cultural heritage. It carries a tone of regret and irreplaceable loss.
• Commonly collocates with words like: (craft), (formula), (secret technique), (unique skill), (document/text).

Variants and Related Words

• Sự thất truyền (n): The loss, the extinction (of knowledge). Refers to the event or state of being lost.
  • Sự thất truyền của những nghề thủ công là một mất mát văn hóa. (The loss of handicrafts is a cultural deprivation.)

Synonyms

• Lost: No longer known or possessed.
• Extinct: No longer existing or practiced.
• Forgotten: No longer remembered (though "thất truyền" is stronger, implying a failed transmission).

Antonyms

• Được lưu truyền / Truyền lại (v): To be passed down / To be handed down.
• Tồn tại (v): To survive, to exist.

Related Concepts

• Di sản phi vật thể: Intangible cultural heritage (which is often at risk of ).
• Bảo tồn: Preservation (the action to prevent something from becoming ).

Học thuật

adj

1. lost