目鏡生

Chinese

		eyepiece; glasses	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
trad. (目鏡生)		目鏡	生
simp. (目镜生)		目镜	生

Pronunciation

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): mah⁷ gia⁴ seng¹ / mah⁷ giaⁿ⁴ seng¹

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• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: mah⁷ gia⁴ seng¹ [Phonetic: mah⁶ gia¹ leng¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maʔ⁴⁻¹ kia⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(ɬ-)lɛŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: mah⁷ giaⁿ⁴ seng¹ [Phonetic: mah⁶ giaⁿ¹ neng¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maʔ²⁴⁻² kĩã⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(ɬ-)nɛŋ⁵³³/

Noun

目鏡生

1. (Puxian Min, humorous or derogatory) bespectacled person; someone who wears glasses; four-eyes

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 四眼田雞 (“four-eyes; specky”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
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

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “目镜生”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 377.