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
Min Nan (POJ): phek-gán

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-yanrh³
  - Yale: bì-yǎnr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihyeal
  - Palladius: бияnр (bijanr)
  - 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/
Min Nan
- (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

(literary) green eyes
(literary, metonymically) non-Han people inhabiting northwestern China; Westerner; Caucasian person

Derived terms

碧眼紫髯
碧眼胡 (Bìyǎnhú)
碧眼兒／碧眼儿
碧眼童顏／碧眼童颜 (bìyǎntóngyán)

碧眼紫鬚／碧眼紫须
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

On’yomi: Kan’on

(Tokyo) へきがん [hèkígáń] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
IPA^(key): [he̞kʲiɡã̠ɴ]

Noun

碧(へき)眼(がん) • (hekigan)

blue eyes
Westerner

Synonyms

青目(あおめ) (aome)

Derived terms

紅毛碧眼(こうもうへきがん) (kōmō hekigan)

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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