眼屎乾淨盲

简 眼屎干净盲 · 繁 眼屎乾淨盲
Cantonese · source Jyutpingngaan5 si2 gon1 zeng6 maang4

Meanings

  1. willful ignorance; out of sight, out of mind [colloquial]
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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

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Reading difference from Unihan

  • 乾 has the reading gon1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is kin4. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 乾 gon1 as its own entry.
  • 淨 has the reading zeng6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zing6. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 淨 zeng6 as its own entry.

Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).

Same syllable, six tones

ngaanngaan1—ngaan2—ngaan3—颜ngaan4color眼ngaan5eye雁ngaan6wild goose
gon干gon1dry赶gon2to overtake旰gon3gon4—gon5—gon6—

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

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: yan3shi3 gan1jing4 mang2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
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Exact source record & identity眼屎乾淨盲 眼屎干净盲 [yan3shi3 gan1jing4 mang2] {ngaan5 si2 gon1 zeng6 maang4} /willful ignorance; out of sight, out of mind [colloquial]/

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