四眼仔

Chinese

		four	eye	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
simp. and trad. (四眼仔)		四	眼	仔

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sei³ ngaan⁵ zai²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sei³ ngaan⁵ zai²
    • Yale: sei ngáahn jái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sei³ ngaan⁵ dzai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: séi³ ngan⁵ zei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sei̯³³ ŋaːn¹³ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/

Noun

四眼仔

1. (Cantonese, figurative) boy or young man who wears glasses; four-eyes

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 四眼田雞 (“four-eyes; specky”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Mandarin	Beijing	四眼兒, 四眼兒狗
	Taiwan	四眼田雞
	Harbin	四眼兒
	Xuzhou	四眼兒, 四眼兒狗 pejorative
	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
Wu	Shanghai	四眼田雞, 四眼狗 pejorative, 四隻眼 pejorative, 架樑