眼光光
Meanings
- (adverb) to describe when someone is looking vacantly
- gazing aimlessly
- staring blankly into space, as though they are comtemplating something or distracted in their own thoughts; to describe how someone is looking on helplessly; to describe how someone is gaping
- gawking eagerly; to describe how someone is gazing longingly; to describe how someone is looking on expectantly; (adj.) eyes wide open, to describe someone who is wide awake and cannot sleep at night
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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.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
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.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: yan3 guang1 guang1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ngaan5 gwong1 gwong1
Cantonese word readings for 眼光光. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
adj
- (Cantonese) One's eyes wide open or staying open: — to be helpless, powerless, at a loss what to do
- (Cantonese) One's eyes wide open or staying open: — to be unable to sleep, to have insomnia
- (Cantonese) One's eyes wide open or staying open: — to glaze over; to have dull eyes
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