Definition

1. Verb:
   • To appear and disappear intermittently; to loom: The primary meaning describes something that is alternately visible and hidden, often creating a vague, shifting, or elusive presence.
   • To flicker; to be glimpsed: Used for something that is seen briefly or momentarily before vanishing again.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Xa xa có bóng người ẩn hiện. (In the distance, a human figure looms.)
  • Mặt trăng ẩn hiện sau những đám mây. (The moon appears and disappears behind the clouds.)
  • Ánh đèn ẩn hiện trong sương mù. (The light flickers in the fog.)

Advanced Usage

• "bia ẩn hiện": A pop-up target (used in marksmanship).

  • Tập bắn bia ẩn hiện. (To practice shooting at pop-up targets.)

• Used to describe abstract concepts like memories or emotions that come and go.

  • Ký ức tuổi thơ ẩn hiện trong tâm trí anh. (Childhood memories flicker in his mind.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ẩn (v): To hide, to conceal.
• Hiện (v): To appear, to manifest.
• Lấp ló (v): To peek in and out; to be partly visible (similar but often implies a more timid or quicker action).

Synonyms

• To loom: To appear indistinctly, often as a threatening shape.
• To flicker: To appear briefly and unsteadily, like a light.
• To flit: To move or appear quickly and lightly.

Related Idioms

• Ẩn hiện mờ ảo: To be illusory or phantasmal; to appear in a dreamlike, vague manner.
  • Ngôi nhà cổ ẩn hiện mờ ảo trong câu chuyện. (The old house looms phantasmally in the story.)

verb

1. Now appear, now disappear; to loom
   • xa xa có bóng người ẩn hiện
     a human shadow is looming in the distance
   • tập bắn bia ẩn hiện
     to have target practice with a revolving target