รอย
mark
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- 1 mark、scratch、stain、scar or crease
- 2 [counter for marks, stains, scars, or tracks]
This word refers to a visible sign left when something touches, passes over, damages, or changes a surface. It covers marks such as scratches and stains as well as tracks and other traces of someone's presence.
mark、scratch、stain、scar or crease
A visible mark on a surface or the body, such as a scratch, stain, crease, scar, or line.
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โต๊ะมีรอยขีดข่วน tó mii rɔɔy khìit khùan The table has a scratch. โต๊ะมีรอยขีดข่วน details
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เสื้อตัวนี้มีรอยเปื้อน sʉ̂a tua níi mii rɔɔy pʉ̂an This shirt has a stain. เสื้อตัวนี้มีรอยเปื้อน details
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นายพรานตามรอยเสือ naay phraan taam rɔɔy sʉ̌a The hunter followed the tiger's tracks. นายพรานตามรอยเสือ details
[counter for marks, stains, scars, or tracks]
A classifier used to count individual marks, stains, scars, footprints, and similar traces.
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รอยแผลเป็นสองรอย rɔɔy phlɛ̌ɛ pen sɔ̌ɔŋ rɔɔy two scars รอยแผลเป็นสองรอย details
Learning notes
Explanation
The central idea of รอย is a visible sign remaining as the result of an action, contact, movement, damage, or other change. It can stand alone for a mark or trace, but it frequently combines with another word that identifies the type of mark: รอยเท้า is a footprint, รอยเปื้อน a stain, รอยแตก a crack, and รอยต่อ a joint or seam. รอยยิ้ม is the ordinary word for a smile, conceptualized as the visible form produced by smiling. Common patterns include มีรอย (“have a mark”), เป็นรอย (“become marked”), ทิ้งรอยไว้ (“leave a mark or trace”), and ตามรอย (“follow a trail”). รอย can also serve as its own classifier when counting individual marks. For example, รอยแผลเป็นสองรอย means “two scars.”
Usage
It is common when talking about scratches on furniture, stains on clothing, scars or acne marks on the skin, and wrinkles on the face. It is also used for following footprints or looking for evidence that a person or animal was present. In beauty-related contexts, expressions such as ลดรอยสิว (“reduce the appearance of acne marks”) are frequent.
Caution
รอย refers to a resulting mark, not the wound itself, which is แผล. Do not confuse it with รอ (“to wait”) or ร้อย (“one hundred” or “to thread”), which are separate words with different spellings.
Differences from similar words
1 mark synonyms
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แผล is the wound or sore itself. รอย refers to the mark visible on a surface or left after the wound heals.