花鏡

Chinese

		flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern	mirror; lens
trad. (花鏡)		花	鏡
simp. (花镜)		花	镜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huājìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚ ㄐㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faa¹ geng³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hua¹ gia⁴ / hua¹ giann⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoe-kiàⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huājìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ ㄐㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huajìng
    • Wade–Giles: hua¹-ching⁴
    • Yale: hwā-jìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huajinq
    • Palladius: хуацзин (xuaczin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faa¹ geng³
    • Yale: fā geng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faa¹ geng³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fa¹ géng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faː⁵⁵ kɛːŋ³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hua¹ gia⁴ [Phonetic: hua² ia⁴]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hua-gia̍ⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hua⁵³³⁻¹³ ^(k-)ia⁴²/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hua¹ giann⁴ [Phonetic: hua² iann⁴]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hua⁵⁴⁴⁻²⁴ ^(k-)ĩã⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-kiàⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: hue-kiànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoe'kviax
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hue⁴⁴⁻³³ kiã²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hue⁴⁴⁻³³ kiã¹¹/

Noun

花鏡

1. reading glasses (for sufferers of presbyopia)

Synonyms

• 老花鏡／老花镜 (lǎohuājìng)
• 老花眼鏡／老花眼镜 (lǎohuā yǎnjìng)

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “花镜”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 285.