ชัด เจน
“ชัด เจน” (чат джен) — obvious; clear-cut in Thai. Adverb, level B1. Literally "clear-settled": the clear you know, and the second word is settled to the end. Obvious is when there is nothing left to argue. In a live sentence: “กล้อง จับ ภาพ เห็น ชัด เจน ว่า ใคร เข้า มา” — On the camera recording it is obvious who came in. Written with the characters ช, ด, เ, จ, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ชัด เจน |
| Read in Latin letters | чат джен |
| Translation | obvious; clear-cut |
| Part of speech | adverb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "clear-settled": the clear you know, and the second word is settled to the end. Obvious is when there is nothing left to argue
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- กล้อง จับ ภาพ เห็น ชัด เจน ว่า ใคร เข้า มาклонг джап пхаап хэн чат джен ваа кхрай као маOn the camera recording it is obvious who came in
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “obvious; clear-cut” in Thai?
«ชัด เจน», read “чат джен”. In a live sentence: “กล้อง จับ ภาพ เห็น ชัด เจน ว่า ใคร เข้า มา” — On the camera recording it is obvious who came in. Adverb, level B1; written with the characters ช, ด, เ, จ, น.
How is “ชัด เจน” written in Latin letters?
чат джен. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "clear-settled": the clear you know, and the second word is settled to the end. Obvious is when there is nothing left to argue. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.