眼光

Chinese

		eye	light; ray; bright
simp. and trad. (眼光)		眼	光
anagram		光眼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎnguāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ ㄍㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaan⁵ gwong¹

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngién-kông / ngián-kông
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): gán-kong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ngang² guang¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶nge-kuaon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎnguāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ ㄍㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎnguang
    • Wade–Giles: yen³-kuang¹
    • Yale: yǎn-gwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeanguang
    • Palladius: яньгуан (janʹguan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎnguāngr
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ ㄍㄨㄤㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎnguangr
    • Wade–Giles: yen³-kuang¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: yǎn-gwāngr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeanguangl
    • Palladius: яньгуанр (janʹguanr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngaan⁵ gwong¹
    • Yale: ngáahn gwōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaan⁵ gwong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngan⁵ guong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaːn¹³ kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngién-kông
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngien` gong´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngian<sup>3</sup> gong<sup>1</sup>
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯en³¹ koŋ²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngián-kông
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngian` gong´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngian³ gong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯an³¹ koŋ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gán-kong
    • Tâi-lô: gán-kong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gafnkofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngang² guang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngáng kuang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ kuaŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶nge-kuaon
    • MiniDict: nge^去 kuaon
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³nge-kuaan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ŋe²² kuɑ̃⁴⁴/

Noun

眼光

1. eyes; gaze

   眾人的眼光／众人的眼光  ―  zhòngrén de yǎnguāng  ―  all eyes; public gaze

2. insight; vision

   審美眼光／审美眼光  ―  shěnměi yǎnguāng  ―  eye for beauty

   市場眼光／市场眼光  ―  shìchǎng yǎnguāng  ―  market insight

   眼光遠大／眼光远大  ―  yǎnguāng yuǎndà  ―  to be farsighted; to be foresighted

   你眼光不錯嘛。／你眼光不错嘛。  ―  Nǐ yǎnguāng bùcuò ma.  ―  You have good taste.

3. view; perspective

   歷史的眼光／历史的眼光  ―  lìshǐ de yǎnguāng  ―  historical perspective

Synonyms

• (eyes):

• 目光 (mùguāng)
• 眼火 (⁶nge-hu) (Wu)
• 視域／视域 (shìyù)
• 視界／视界 (shìjiè)
• 視線／视线 (shìxiàn)
• 視野／视野 (shìyě)
• 視閾／视阈 (shìyù) (literary)

 

• (insight):

• 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)
• 眼力 (yǎnlì)
• 眼孔 (yǎnkǒng)
• 眼水 (ngaan⁵ seoi²) (Cantonese, dialectal Mandarin)
• 眼界 (yǎnjiè)
• 觀察力／观察力 (guānchálì)
• 識別力／识别力 (shíbiélì)
• 鑒賞力／鉴赏力 (jiànshǎnglì)

 

• (view):

• 主張／主张 (zhǔzhāng)
• 倡議／倡议 (chàngyì)
• 建議／建议 (jiànyì)
• 意下 (yìxià) (literary)
• 意思
• 想法
• 意見／意见 (yìjiàn)
• 提議／提议 (tíyì)
• 看法 (kànfǎ)
• 看點／看点 (kàndiǎn)
• 睇法 (tai² faat³) (Cantonese)
• 視角／视角 (shìjiǎo)
• 見地／见地 (jiàndì)
• 見解／见解 (jiànjiě)
• 觀點／观点 (guāndiǎn)
• 角度 (jiǎodù)
• 諗法／谂法 (nam² faat³) (Cantonese)
• 議／议 (yì) (literary, or in compounds)

 

Derived terms

• 不夠眼光／不够眼光
• 有眼光
• 眼光短淺／眼光短浅
• 眼光菩薩／眼光菩萨

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
眼	光
がん Grade: 5	こう Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) がんこー [gàńkóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɡã̠ŋko̞ː]

Noun

眼(がん)光(こう) • (gankō) ^{←がんくわう (gankwau)?}

1. sparkles in eyes
2. a gaze (a fixed look)
   • 2003 September 22, Akinobu Uraku, “第(だい)60(ろくじゅう)話(わ)　少(しょう)女(じょ)の決(けつ)意(い) [Chapter 60: A Girl’s Resolve]”, in 東(とう)京(きょう)アンダーグラウンド [Tokyo Underground], volume 11 (fiction), Square Enix, →ISBN, page 26:

     地(ち)上(じょう)で出(で)会(あ)った時(とき)とは見(み)違(ちが)える眼(がん)光(こう)…若(わか)き日(ひ)の華(カ)泰(シン)に似(に)ている……

     Chijō de deatta toki to wa michigaeru gankō… wakakihi no Kashin ni niteiru……

     That gaze… looks almost like Kashin’s when I first met him as a youth underground……