眼神

Chinese

		eye	God; unusual; mysterious God; unusual; mysterious; soul; spirit; divine essence; lively; spiritual being
simp. and trad. (眼神)		眼	神

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎnshén

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ ㄕㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaan⁵ san⁴

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngién-sṳ̀n / ngián-sṳ̀n
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): gán-sîn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ngang² sing⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎnshén
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ ㄕㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎnshén
    • Wade–Giles: yen³-shên²
    • Yale: yǎn-shén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeanshern
    • Palladius: яньшэнь (janʹšɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂən³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (眼神兒／眼神儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎnshénr
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ ㄕㄣˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎnshénr
    • Wade–Giles: yen³-shên²-ʼrh
    • Yale: yǎn-shénr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeansherl
    • Palladius: яньшэньр (janʹšɛnʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂəɻ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngaan⁵ san⁴
    • Yale: ngáahn sàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaan⁵ san⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngan⁵ sen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaːn¹³ sɐn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngién-sṳ̀n
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngien` siinˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngian<sup>3</sup> sin<sup>2</sup>
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯en³¹ sɨn¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngián-sṳ̀n
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngian` siinˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngian³ sin²
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯an³¹ sɨn¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gán-sîn
    • Tâi-lô: gán-sîn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gafnsiin
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sin²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sin²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sin¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sin²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sin²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngang² sing⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngáng sîng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ siŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

眼神

1. look (in someone's eyes); gaze; expression shown in someone's eyes

   注意他的眼神。  ―  Zhùyì tā de yǎnshén.  ―  Note the look in his eyes.

2. (dialectal Mandarin) eyesight

Synonyms

• (look): 目光 (mùguāng), (Hokkien) 目神
• (eyesight):

• 目力 (mùlì) (literary)
• 目水 (Hakka, Leizhou Min)
• 眼力 (yǎnlì)
• 眼火 (⁶nge-hu) (Ningbonese)
• 視／视 (shì) (literary, or in compounds)
• 視力／视力 (shìlì)

 

Derived terms

• 確認過眼神／确认过眼神 (quèrèn guò yǎnshén)