眼白

Chinese

		eye	white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous
simp. and trad. (眼白)		眼	白
anagram		白眼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎnbái

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ ㄅㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaan⁵ baak^6-2

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎnbái
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ ㄅㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎnbái
    • Wade–Giles: yen³-pai²
    • Yale: yǎn-bái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeanbair
    • Palladius: яньбай (janʹbaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ paɪ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (眼白兒 / 眼白儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎnbáir
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ ㄅㄞˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎnbáir
    • Wade–Giles: yen³-pai²-ʼrh
    • Yale: yǎn-báir
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeanbarl
    • Palladius: яньбайр (janʹbajr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɑɻ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngaan⁵ baak^6-2
    • Yale: ngáahn báak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaan⁵ baak^9-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngan⁵ bag^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaːn¹³ paːk̚²⁻³⁵/

Noun

眼白

1. (colloquial) white of the eye

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 白眼珠 (“white of the eye”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		白眼珠, 鞏膜
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	眼白兒
	Taiwan	白眼球, 眼白
	Harbin	白眼珠兒, 白眼珠子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	白眼珠
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	白眼珠兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	白眼睛珠兒
	Wanrong	白眼窩珠, 白眼睫珠
	Xi'an	白眼仁兒
	Xining	白眼仁兒
	Xuzhou	白眼珠兒, 白眼珠子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	白眼仁子
	Lanzhou	白眼仁子
	Ürümqi	白眼仁子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	白眼仁, 白眼仁兒, 白眼珠
	Wuhan	眼睛白, 眼白
	Guiyang	白眼仁
	Liuzhou	眼白
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	白眼珠子, 眼白兒
	Yangzhou	眼睛白子, 眼白子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	眼白
	Hong Kong	眼白
	Dongguan	白暈
Gan	Nanchang	白眼睛珠子
	Lichuan	白眼珠
	Pingxiang	白厴子, 白衣子
Hakka	Meixian	白仁仔
	Yudu	白眼仁子
Huizhou	Jixi	白珠, 眼白
Jin	Taiyuan	白眼珠子, 眼白, 白眼睛球
	Xinzhou	白眼睛
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	白仁
Southern Min	Xiamen	白目仁, 白仁
	Quanzhou	白仁
	Zhangzhou	白目仁, 白仁
	Tainan	白仁
	Haikou	白目仁
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	白眼睛, 眼白
Wu	Shanghai	眼白
	Shanghai (Chongming)	眼白
	Suzhou	白眼烏珠
	Danyang	眼白
	Hangzhou	白眼烏珠, 眼白兒
	Ningbo	眼白
	Wenzhou	眼白
	Jinhua	眼睛白
Xiang	Changsha	白眼珠子
	Loudi	白眼珠子
	Hengyang	白仁

Japanese

Kanji in this term
眼	白
め Grade: 5	しろ > じろ Grade: 1
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 眼白 – see the following entry.

【目白めじろ】 [noun] the Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonicus [noun] a white-eye (any other passerine birds of the family Zosteropidae) [proper noun] a place name [proper noun] a surname Alternative spellings 繍眼児, メジロ

(This term, 眼白, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)