四眼龜

Chinese

		four	eye	tortoise; turtle
trad. (四眼龜)		四	眼	龜
simp. (四眼龟)		四	眼	龟

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sei³ ngaan⁵ gwai¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sei³ ngaan⁵ gwai¹
    • Yale: sei ngáahn gwāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sei³ ngaan⁵ gwai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: séi³ ngan⁵ guei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sei̯³³ ŋaːn¹³ kʷɐi̯⁵⁵/

Noun

四眼龜

1. (Cantonese, figurative, derogatory) bespectacled person; someone 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