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天眼

Cantonese · source Jyutpingtin1 ngaan5

Eye in the sky; surveillance cameras placed in public by the police in Hong Kong

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

tin11 · high levelngaan55 · low rising

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Same syllable, six tones

tin天tin1day 腆tin2make strong 瑱tin3田tin4field 殄tin5tin6—

ngaanngaan1—ngaan2—ngaan3—颜ngaan4color 眼ngaan5eye 雁ngaan6wild goose

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

天眼

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

天眼 Tiān yǎn CC-CEDICT · Mandarinnickname of the FAST radio telescope (in Guizhou)

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: tian1 yan3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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