目箍

Chinese

		eye; item; section eye; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; (taxonomy) order; goal; name; title	hoop; bind with hoops
trad. (目箍)		目	箍
simp. #(目箍)		目	箍

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ba̍k-kho͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mag⁸ kou¹

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ba̍k-kho͘
    • Tâi-lô: ba̍k-khoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bagqof
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bak̚¹²¹⁻²¹ kʰɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Singapore): /bak̚⁴³⁻²¹ kʰɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bak̚²⁴⁻² kʰɔ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bak̚⁴⁻³² kʰɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mag⁸ kou¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ma̍k khou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mak̚⁴⁻² kʰou³³/

Noun

目箍

1. (Southern Min) eye socket
2. (Southern Min) rim of the eye; skin around the eyes
   • 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “圈”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press:

     伊的目圈紅紅，是在哭也不是？ [Teochew, trad.]
     伊的目圈红红，是在哭也不是？ [Teochew, simp.]

     i¹ gai⁵ mak⁸ kou¹ ang⁵ ang⁵, si⁶ do² kao³ a¹ m⁷ si⁶? [Peng'im]

     Her eyes are red, she is crying is she not?

   • 孤單送行的人　帶著心事目眶紅 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     孤单送行的人　带着心事目眶红 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 2005, 翁立友 [Weng Li-you] (lyricist 巴步), 送行

     ko͘-toaⁿ sàng-hêng ê lâng, tòa tio̍h sim-sū ba̍k-kho͘ âng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• 眼眶 (yǎnkuàng)
• 眼圈 (yǎnquān)
• (Sichuan) 眼眶眶, 眼圈圈, 眼圈圈兒／眼圈圈儿
• (Jin, Xiang) 眼眶子
• (Jin) 眼窟子

Derived terms

• 烏目箍 / 乌目箍

References

• “目箍”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• Fielde, Adele Marion (1883) “圈”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 314