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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phek-gán

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìyǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìyǎn
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴-yen³
    • Yale: bì-yǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihyean
    • Palladius: биянь (bijanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìyǎnr
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄧㄢˇㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìyǎnr
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴-yen³-ʼrh
    • Yale: bì-yǎnr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihyeal
    • Palladius: бияньр (bijanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹ jɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bik¹ ngaan⁵
    • Yale: bīk ngáahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bik⁷ ngaan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: big¹ ngan⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɪk̚⁵ ŋaːn¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phek-gán
    • Tâi-lô: phik-gán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phekgarn
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ ɡan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ ɡan⁵³/

Noun

碧眼

1. (literary) green eyes
2. (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 (Bìyǎnhú)
• 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)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (碧眼):

• → Japanese: 碧眼(へきがん) (hekigan)
• → Korean: 벽안(碧眼) (byeogan)

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

• (Tokyo) へきがん [hèkígáń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [he̞kʲiɡã̠ɴ]

Noun

碧(へき)眼(がん) • (hekigan) 

1. blue eyes
2. Westerner

Synonyms

• 青目(あおめ) (aome)

Derived terms

• 紅毛碧眼(こうもうへきがん) (kōmō hekigan)

Korean

Hanja in this term
碧	眼

Noun

碧眼 • (byeogan) (hangeul 벽안)

1. Hanja form^? of 벽안.