phơ

Thân thiện

Ông cụ có mái tóc bạc phơ đang ngồi đọc sách.

Definition

1. Adjective (Reduplicative form: "phơ phơ"):
   • Completely white, snowy white: Used almost exclusively to describe hair or a beard that has turned entirely and brightly white, often with a connotation of age or venerability. It emphasizes a pure, uniform whiteness.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Ông cụ đầu bạc phơ. (The old man has snowy-white hair.)
  • Râu tóc bạc phơ phơ. (His beard and hair are completely white.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is rarely used in isolation in modern Vietnamese. Its primary and most natural form is the reduplicative "phơ phơ".
• It carries a poetic or descriptive tone, often used in literature or respectful descriptions of the elderly.

Variants and Related Words

• Phơ phơ (adj): The standard, more common reduplicative form meaning "completely white" (for hair/beard).
  • Mái tóc bạc phơ phơ của bà. (Her head of snowy-white hair.)

Synonyms

• Bạc trắng: white as silver, silvery white.
• Bạc trắng như cước: white as thread, idiom for very white hair.

Related Idioms

• Đầu bạc phơ: A set phrase meaning "a head of snowy-white hair," symbolizing old age and often wisdom.
  • Cụ già đầu bạc phơ ngồi đọc sách. (The old man with snowy-white hair sat reading a book.)

Học thuật

1. Snowy
2. phơ phơ (láy)
   • Đầu bạc phơ phơ
     Snow-white hair, snowy hair