夜盲

Chinese

		night	blind
trad. (夜盲)		夜	盲
simp. #(夜盲)		夜	盲

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yèmáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ ㄇㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): je⁶ maang⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iā-bông / iā-bâng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yèmáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ ㄇㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yèmáng
    • Wade–Giles: yeh⁴-mang²
    • Yale: yè-máng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yehmang
    • Palladius: еман (jeman)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵¹ mɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: je⁶ maang⁴
    • Yale: yeh màahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: je⁶ maang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yé⁶ mang⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛː²² maːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iā-bông
    • Tâi-lô: iā-bông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iaxboong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ia²²⁻²¹ bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ia²²⁻²¹ bɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ia⁴¹⁻²² bɔŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iā-bâng
    • Tâi-lô: iā-bâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iaxbaang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ia²²⁻²¹ baŋ²⁴/

Noun

夜盲

1. night blindness; nyctalopia

Synonyms

• 雞瞀眼／鸡瞀眼

Dialectal synonyms of 夜盲 (“night blindness; nyctalopia”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		夜盲, 夜盲症
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	雀蒙眼
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	雞宿眼, 雀蒙眼
	Wanrong	夜黑子
	Xuzhou	夜盲眼, 雞宿眼
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	雞麻眼
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	雞摸眼, 雞蒙眼
	Wuhan	雞蒙眼
	Liuzhou	雞蒙眼
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	雀眯眼
	Yangzhou	雀盲眼, 雀矇眼
Cantonese	Guangzhou	雞盲
	Dongguan	發雞盲, 夜盲症
Gan	Pingxiang	雞毛眼
Hakka	Yudu	雞毛眼
Jin	Taiyuan	雀目眼
Southern Min	Xiamen	雀盲, 雞仔目
	Quanzhou	雀盲
	Zhangzhou	雀盲, 雞仔目
	Taipei	雞仔目
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	雞仔目
	Kaohsiung	雞仔目
	Yilan	雞仔目
	Changhua (Lukang)	雞仔目
	Taichung	雞仔目
	Tainan	雞仔目
	Hsinchu	雞目
	Kinmen	雞目
	Penghu (Magong)	雞目
	Chaozhou	雀盲
	Shantou	雀盲
	Leizhou	照雞盲
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	發雞盲
Wu	Shanghai	雞宿眼
	Shanghai (Chongming)	雞白眼
	Danyang	雀目眼, 夜盲
	Wenzhou	雞盲眼
	Jinhua	雞盲
Xiang	Changsha	雞毛眼
	Loudi	雞毛眼

Derived terms

• 夜盲症 (yèmángzhèng)