บ่าย 📣 | bàai | Afternoon / To Turn away

Insight Hub

• Daily Curiosity
  

  3 Ways to Use It

  1. General Time of Day

  • ตอนบ่าย 📣 (dtawn bàai) — In the afternoon.

  • บ่ายสอง 📣 (bàai sǎawng) — 2:00 PM.

  2. The Late Afternoon

  • บ่ายแก่ๆ 📣 (bàai gàe-gàe) — Late afternoon (Literally: “Old afternoon”).

  3. Changing Direction (The Root Verb)

  • บ่ายหน้าไปทาง 📣… (bàai nâa bpai thaang…) — To turn one’s face/heading toward…

  • Logic: Used in literature or formal speech to describe a boat, a vehicle, or a person shifting their course.