目光

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Chinese

		eye; item; section eye; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; (taxonomy) order; goal; name; title	light; ray; bright
simp. and trad. (目光)		目	光

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mùguāng

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄍㄨㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶ gwong¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): bo̍k-kong / ba̍k-kng / ba̍k-kuiⁿ

(Teochew, Peng'im): mag⁸ guang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mùguāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄍㄨㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mùguang
  - Wade–Giles: mu⁴-kuang¹
  - Yale: mù-gwāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muhguang
  - Palladius: мугуан (muguan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: muk⁶ gwong¹
  - Yale: muhk gwōng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹ gwong¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶ guong¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚² kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bo̍k-kong
  - Tâi-lô: bo̍k-kong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bogkofng
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔk̚²⁴⁻² kɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bɔk̚⁴⁻³² kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ba̍k-kng
  - Tâi-lô: ba̍k-kng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bagk'ngf
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /bak̚⁴⁻³² kŋ̍⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bak̚²⁴⁻² kŋ̍³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ba̍k-kuiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: ba̍k-kuinn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bagkvuy
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bak̚¹²¹⁻²¹ kuĩ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mag⁸ guang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ma̍k kuang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mak̚⁴⁻² kuaŋ³³/

Noun

目光

line of sight
把目光聚焦在…… [MSC, trad. and simp.]
bǎ mùguāng jùjiāo zài......
to focus on...
look (in someone's eyes); gaze
哀愁的目光 ― āichóu de mùguāng ― sad look

嚴峻的目光／严峻的目光 ― yánjùn de mùguāng ― stern look
(figurative) vision; aspiration

Synonyms

(field of view):

眼光 (yǎnguāng)
眼火 (⁶nge-hu) (Wu)
視域／视域 (shìyù)
視界／视界 (shìjiè)
視線／视线 (shìxiàn)
視野／视野 (shìyě)
視閾／视阈 (shìyù) (literary)

(look): 眼神 (yǎnshén), (Hokkien) 目神
(vision):

慧眼 (huìyǎn)
目力 (mùlì) (literary)
目潲 (Hokkien, vulgar)
目識／目识 (Singapore Hokkien)
目頭／目头 (Hokkien)
眼光 (yǎnguāng)
眼力 (yǎnlì)
眼孔 (yǎnkǒng)
眼水 (ngaan⁵ seoi²) (Cantonese, dialectal Mandarin)
眼界 (yǎnjiè)
觀察力／观察力 (guānchálì)
識別力／识别力 (shíbiélì)
鑒賞力／鉴赏力 (jiànshǎnglì)

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