tô
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Definition
- Noun:
- Bowl: A deep, typically round dish used for serving food, especially soups, noodles, or rice dishes. It is generally larger and deeper than a standard rice bowl ("bát").
- Verb:
- To color / to fill in with color: To apply color within the outlines of a drawing, picture, or map.
- To trace / to go over: To carefully draw over existing lines or letters (e.g., in handwriting practice or makeup) to make them darker, clearer, or more defined.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Mẹ đựng canh trong một tô lớn. (Mother put the soup in a large bowl.)
- Tôi gọi một tô phở đặc biệt. (I ordered a special bowl of pho.)
- Verb:
- Đứa trẻ tô màu cho bức tranh. (The child colored the picture.)
- Cô ấy tô lại đường viền mắt. (She traced over her eyeliner.)
- Học sinh lớp một tập tô chữ. (First-graders practice tracing letters.)
Advanced Usage
- "tô điểm": to adorn, to embellish.
- Những bông hoa tô điểm cho khu vườn. (The flowers adorn the garden.)
- "tô hồng": to paint a rosy picture, to describe something in an overly optimistic way.
- Anh ấy có xu hướng tô hồng mọi vấn đề. (He tends to paint a rosy picture of every problem.)
Variants and Related Words
- Tô cháo (n): a bowl of rice porridge.
- Bữa sáng của tôi là một tô cháo trắng. (My breakfast is a bowl of rice porridge.)
- Tô màu (v): to color, to color in.
- Con gái tôi rất thích tô màu. (My daughter loves coloring.)
- Tô vẽ (v): to embellish (a story), to fabricate.
- Đừng tô vẽ thêm cho câu chuyện. (Don't embellish the story further.)
Synonyms
- Noun: Bowl, dish, vessel.
- Verb (to color): Color in, fill in, paint.
- Verb (to trace): Go over, retrace, outline.
Related Idioms
- Tô son trát phấn: To apply makeup heavily; to prettify or gloss over the truth.
- Sự thật là thế, không cần tô son trát phấn. (That's the truth; there's no need to gloss over it.)
verb
- to apply colour to, to colour, to trace