四眼龜
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]wearing glasses; four-eyed | tortoise; turtle | ||
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trad. (四眼龜) | 四眼 | 龜 | |
simp. (四眼龟) | 四眼 | 龟 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: sei3 ngaan5 gwai1
- Yale: sei ngáahn gwāi
- Cantonese Pinyin: sei3 ngaan5 gwai1
- Guangdong Romanization: séi3 ngan5 guei1
- Sinological IPA (key): /sei̯³³ ŋaːn¹³ kʷɐi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
[edit]四眼龜
- (Cantonese, figurative, derogatory) bespectacled person; someone who wears glasses; four-eyes
Synonyms
[edit]Variety | Location | Words |
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Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 四眼兒, 四眼兒狗 |
Taiwan | 四眼田雞 | |
Harbin | 四眼兒 | |
Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 四眼兒, 四眼兒狗 pejorative |
Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 二餅 |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 四眼佬 man, 四眼妹 girl, 四眼狗 pejorative |
Hong Kong | 四眼仔 boy, 四眼妹 girl, 四眼佬 man, 四眼婆 woman, 四眼龜 pejorative | |
Taishan | 四眼佬 | |
Kaiping (Chikan) | 四眼佬 | |
Dongguan | 四眼仔 boy, 四眼佬 man | |
Jin | Taiyuan | 四眼兒 |
Puxian Min | Putian | 目鏡生 |
Xianyou | 目鏡生 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 四眼田雞, 四眼狗 pejorative, 四隻眼 pejorative, 架樑 |