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 giann4 seng1
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: mah7 gia4 seng1 [Phonetic: mah6 gia1 leng1]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ma̍h-gia̍ⁿ-seng
- Sinological IPA (key): /maʔ⁴⁻²¹ kia⁴²⁻⁵⁵ (ɬ-)lɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: mah7 giann4 seng1 [Phonetic: mah6 giann1 neng1]
- Sinological IPA (key): /maʔ⁴⁻² kĩã⁴²⁻⁵⁵ (ɬ-)nɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Putian)
Noun
目鏡生
- (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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.