碧眼

Chinese

		green jade; bluish green; blue green jade; bluish green; blue; jade	eye
simp. and trad. (碧眼)		碧	眼

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bìyǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bik¹ ngaan⁵
Min Nan (POJ): phek-gán

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: bìyǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄧㄢˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihyean
  - IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹ i̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: bik¹ ngaan⁵
  - Yale: bīk ngáahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bik⁷ ngaan⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: big¹ ngan⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /pɪk̚⁵ ŋɑːn¹³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phek-gán
  - Tâi-lô: phik-gán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phekgarn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ gan⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiɪk̚⁵⁻²⁴ gan⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ gan⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ gan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ gan⁴¹/

Noun

碧眼

(literary) green eyes
(literary, metonymically) non-Han people inhabiting northwestern China; Westerner; Caucasian person

Derived terms

碧眼兒／碧眼儿
碧眼童顏／碧眼童颜 (bìyǎntóngyán)
碧眼紫髯
碧眼紫鬚／碧眼紫须

碧眼胡
碧眼胡兒／碧眼胡儿
碧眼金髮／碧眼金发
金髮碧眼／金发碧眼 (jīnfàbìyǎn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
碧	眼
へき Jinmeiyō	がん Grade: 5
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 碧眼 (pwiᴇk̚ ŋˠɛn^X).

Pronunciation

On’yomi: Kan’on
- (Tokyo) へきがん [hèkígáń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
- IPA^(key): [he̞kʲiɡã̠ɴ]

Noun

碧眼 (hiragana へきがん, rōmaji hekigan)

blue eyes
Westerner

Synonyms

青目 (あおめ) (aome)

Derived terms

紅毛碧眼 (こうもうへきがん) (kōmō hekigan)

References

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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