白目

Chinese

		white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous	eye; item; section eye; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; (taxonomy) order; goal; name; title
simp. and trad. (白目)		白	目

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): báimù

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄇㄨˋ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pe̍h-ba̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: báimù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄇㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: báimù
    • Wade–Giles: pai²-mu⁴
    • Yale: bái-mù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairmuh
    • Palladius: байму (bajmu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ mu⁵¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-ba̍k
    • Tâi-lô: pe̍h-ba̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peqbak
    • IPA (Taipei): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ bak̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ bak̚⁴/

Noun

白目

1. (Taiwan, derogatory) moron, stupid

References

• “Entry #14019”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
白	目
しろ Grade: 1	め Grade: 1
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 白目 – see the following entry.

【しろめ】 [noun] white of the eye [noun] a cold look, a cold expression [noun] pewter Alternative spelling 白眼

(This term, 白目, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)