近視眼

See also: 近视眼

Chinese

		near sight; myopia; nearsightedness near sight; myopia; nearsightedness; shortsightedness	eye
trad. (近視眼)		近視	眼
simp. (近视眼)		近视	眼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jìnshìyǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄕˋ ㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan⁶ si⁶ ngaan⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jìnshìyǎn → jìnshiyǎn (toneless variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄕˋ ㄧㄢˇ → ㄐㄧㄣˋ ˙ㄕ ㄧㄢˇ (toneless variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jìnshi̊hyǎn
    • Wade–Giles: chin⁴-shih⁵-yen³
    • Yale: jìn-shr-yǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinn.shyhyean
    • Palladius: цзиньшиянь (czinʹšijanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /t͡ɕin⁵¹ ʂʐ̩¹ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jìnshìyǎnr → jìnshiyǎnr (toneless variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄕˋ ㄧㄢˇㄦ → ㄐㄧㄣˋ ˙ㄕ ㄧㄢˇㄦ (toneless variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jìnshi̊hyǎnr
    • Wade–Giles: chin⁴-shih⁵-yen³-ʼrh
    • Yale: jìn-shr-yǎnr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinn.shyhyeal
    • Palladius: цзиньшияньр (czinʹšijanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ jɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /t͡ɕin⁵¹ ʂʐ̩¹ jɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan⁶ si⁶ ngaan⁵
    • Yale: gahn sih ngáahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan⁶ si⁶ ngaan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: gen⁶ xi⁶ ngan⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐn²² siː²² ŋaːn¹³/

Noun

近視眼

1. (colloquial) myopia; nearsightedness
2. (colloquial) myopic person; one who wears glasses
3. (figuratively) Synonym of 短視／短视 (duǎnshì, “short-sightedness; lacking foresight”)

   • 所有上述一切，我們叫它做政治上軍事上的近視眼。 [MSC, trad.]
     所有上述一切，我们叫它做政治上军事上的近视眼。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Suǒyǒu shàngshù yīqiè, wǒmen jiào tā zuò zhèngzhì shàng jūnshì shàng de jìnshìyǎn. [Pinyin]

     All the above can be termed political and military short-sightedness.

Synonyms

• (myopic person): (Liuzhou Mandarin) 瞇子／眯子; (Northern Min) 睼目仔; (Eastern Min) 眯眯

Antonyms

• 遠視眼／远视眼

Japanese

Kanji in this term
近	視	眼
きん Grade: 2	し Grade: 6	がん Grade: 5
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
近視眼 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きんしがん [kìńshígáń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kʲĩɰ̃ɕiɡã̠ɴ]

Noun

近(きん)視(し)眼(がん) • (kinshigan) 

1. (pathology) Synonym of 近視