How do you say “silhouette” in Vietnamese?

“Silhouette” in Vietnamese is bóng (a ball), bóng dáng (silhouette).

Vietnamese words for “silhouette”

• bóngListennoun
  Hanoi [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˦] · Saigon [ʔɓawŋ͡m˦˥]bóng rising

  a ball

  for “silhouette” meaning: An artistic depiction, often of a person's profile, in the form of an outline without any other visual details, similar to a shadow, made by cutting a piece of black paper, filling in an outline with

• bóng dángListennoun
  Hanoi [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˦ zaːŋ˧˦] · Saigon [ʔɓawŋ͡m˦˥ jaːŋ˦˥]bóng rising dáng rising

  silhouette; figure; shadow

Related Vietnamese words

• hìnhListennoun

  image; figure; silhouette

• phomListennoun

  last; shape; silhouette

Translations matched from English Wiktionary (translation tables and Vietnamese entries, via kaikki.org; CC BY-SA 4.0) and the NgonNgu English–Vietnamese dictionary, reviewed and edited; examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). The Listen button uses your browser's Vietnamese voice.