Definition

1. Verb:
   • To see off, to send off: The primary meaning of "tiễn" is to accompany someone who is departing, often to their point of departure (e.g., a door, station, airport), as a gesture of farewell and courtesy.
   • To bid farewell: The act of saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Tôi ra sân bay để tiễn cô ấy. (I went to the airport to see her off.)
  • Anh ấy tiễn khách ra đến cổng. (He saw the guests off to the gate.)
  • Cả gia đình tiễn tôi lên đường. (The whole family saw me off on my journey.)

Advanced Usage

• "tiễn biệt": to bid a formal or final farewell.
  • Chúng tôi tổ chức một bữa tiệc nhỏ để tiễn biệt đồng nghiệp. (We held a small party to bid farewell to our colleague.)
• "tiễn đưa": a more formal or emotional term for seeing someone off, often used for solemn occasions.
  • Hàng trăm người đến để tiễn đưa vị lãnh tụ. (Hundreds of people came to send off the leader.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đưa tiễn (v): a synonym meaning to accompany and see someone off.
  • Bố mẹ đưa tiễn con gái đi du học. (The parents saw their daughter off as she went to study abroad.)
• Tống tiễn (v): to send off, sometimes with a nuance of being glad to see someone go.
  • Hắn bị tống tiễn khỏi cuộc họp vì gây rối. (He was sent off from the meeting for causing trouble.)

Synonyms

• Escort out: to accompany someone to an exit.
• Bid farewell: to say goodbye.
• Send off: to accompany a departing person.

Related Idioms

• Tiễn chân: (literally, "to see off the feet") a common phrase meaning to walk someone out.
  • Để tôi tiễn chân anh ra xe. (Let me walk you out to your car.)
• Tiễn người, tiễn cả tình: (idiomatic) to see off the person, and with them, the feelings; implying a sad or final farewell where emotions are also left behind.

verb

1. to see off