vẳng
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Definition
- Intransitive Verb:
- To be heard faintly from a distance; to resound or echo softly from afar.
- To be perceived as a distant, often indistinct, sound.
Usage Examples
- Intransitive Verb:
- Từ trong nhà, tôi vẳng nghe tiếng cười ngoài ngõ. (From inside the house, I faintly heard laughter from the alley.)
- Trong đêm khuya thanh vắng, tiếng chuông chùa vẳng lại. (In the quiet late night, the sound of the temple bell echoed faintly.)
- Chỉ vẳng nghe tiếng mưa rơi tí tách. (Only the faint sound of dripping rain could be heard.)
Advanced Usage
- "vẳng vẳng": A reduplicated form used to emphasize the faint, distant, and continuous nature of a sound.
- Tiếng đàn bầu vẳng vẳng đâu đây. (The sound of the monochord was faintly echoing here and there.)
- Often used in literary and poetic contexts to create an atmosphere of solitude, memory, or melancholy, describing sounds that seem to travel across space or time.
- Tiếng hát ngày xưa vẫn còn vẳng bên tai. (The singing from the old days still faintly resonates in my ears.)
Variants and Related Words
- Văng vẳng: (Adverb/Adjective) Describes a sound that is faint, distant, and echoing. It is the most common compound form.
- Văng vẳng bên tai lời mẹ dặn. (My mother's advice echoes faintly in my ear.)
- Vọng: (Verb) To echo, to resound, to be transmitted (often louder or clearer than ).
- Tiếng loa vọng khắp làng. (The loudspeaker's sound echoed throughout the village.)
Synonyms
- Vọng lại: to echo back.
- Nghe thoảng: to hear fleetingly/faintly.
- Dội lại: to reverberate, to resound (often implies a stronger reflection of sound).
Notes on Meaning
- Core Concept: specifically describes the auditory experience of a sound that originates from a distance, losing its clarity and volume by the time it reaches the listener. It implies separation and a degree of obscurity.
- Nuance: Unlike vang (to resound loudly) or vọng (to echo clearly), carries a poetic, subtle, and often melancholic connotation. It is the sound that barely arrives, requiring the listener to be attentive.