近視眼

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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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jìnshìyǎn → jìnshiyǎn (toneless variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄕˋ ㄧㄢˇ → ㄐㄧㄣˋ ˙ㄕㄧㄢˇ (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 ˙ㄕㄧㄢˇㄦ (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

(colloquial) myopia; nearsightedness
(colloquial) myopic person; one who wears glasses
(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.
  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 (Heiban – )
IPA^(key):

Noun

近(きん)視(し)眼(がん) • (kinshigan)

(pathology) Synonym of 近視

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