đại hạnh phúc
Definition
- Noun:
- Great happiness; supreme bliss; felicity: A state of profound, immense, and often sublime joy, contentment, or well-being. It implies a level of happiness that is grand, complete, or perfect.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Sau bao năm cố gắng, họ cuối cùng cũng đạt được đại hạnh phúc. (After many years of effort, they finally attained great happiness.)
- Đối với anh ấy, đại hạnh phúc là được sống bên gia đình. (For him, supreme bliss is living with his family.)
- Cô ấy cảm thấy một niềm đại hạnh phúc khi nhìn con mình trưởng thành. (She felt a profound felicity watching her child grow up.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in literary, philosophical, or formal contexts to describe an ideal or ultimate state of joy, sometimes with spiritual or transcendent connotations.
- It can be used to describe a personal, inner state or a condition bestowed by external circumstances.
Variants and Related Words
- Hạnh phúc (n): happiness, bliss. This is the core, more common word from which is formed by adding (great, grand).
- Niềm hạnh phúc (n): a feeling/instance of happiness.
- Đại hỉ (n): great joy (often used for celebratory events like weddings).
Synonyms
- Bliss: perfect happiness.
- Felicity: great happiness.
- Beatitude: supreme blessedness or happiness.
- Elation: great happiness and exhilaration.
Related Idioms
- While itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it relates to the common Vietnamese wish: (overflowing happiness) or (forever happy).