眼界

Chinese

		eye	boundary; scope; extent boundary; scope; extent; circles; group; kingdom (taxonomy)
simp. and trad. (眼界)		眼	界

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎnjiè

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaan⁵ gaai³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngién-kie / ngián-kiai
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): gán-kài

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ngang² gai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎnjiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎnjiè
    • Wade–Giles: yen³-chieh⁴
    • Yale: yǎn-jyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeanjieh
    • Palladius: яньцзе (janʹcze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngaan⁵ gaai³
    • Yale: ngáahn gaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaan⁵ gaai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngan⁵ gai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaːn¹³ kaːi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngién-kie
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngien^ˋ gie
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngian³ gie⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯en³¹ ki̯e⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngián-kiai
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngian^ˋ giai
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngian³ giai⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯an³¹ ki̯ai̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gán-kài
    • Tâi-lô: gán-kài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gafnkaix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kai²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kai²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kai¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kai²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngang² gai³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngáng kài
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ kai²¹³/

Noun

眼界

1. (literally, figuratively) field of vision; scope; horizon; ken

   讀完這本書真的令我打開眼界。 [MSC, trad.]
   读完这本书真的令我打开眼界。 [MSC, simp.]

   Dú wán zhè běn shū zhēnde lìng wǒ dǎkāi yǎnjiè. [Pinyin]

   Reading this book really widened my horizon.

Synonyms

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• 慧眼 (huìyǎn)
• 目光 (mùguāng)
• 目力 (mùlì) (literary)
• 目潲 (Hokkien, vulgar)
• 目識 / 目识 (Singapore Hokkien)
• 目頭 / 目头 (Hokkien)
• 眼光 (yǎnguāng)
• 眼力 (yǎnlì)
• 眼孔 (yǎnkǒng)
• 眼水 (ngaan⁵ seoi²) (Cantonese, dialectal Mandarin)
• 觀察力 / 观察力 (guānchálì)
• 識別力 / 识别力 (shíbiélì)
• 鑒賞力 / 鉴赏力 (jiànshǎnglì)

 

Derived terms

• 大開眼界 / 大开眼界 (dàkāiyǎnjiè)
• 開眼界 / 开眼界

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (眼界):

• → Japanese: 眼界(がんかい) (gankai); 眼界(げんかい) (genkai)
• → Korean: 안계(眼界) (an'gye)