眸子

Chinese

		pupil of the eye	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (眸子)		眸	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): móuzi, móuzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄡˊ ˙ㄗ, ㄇㄡˊ ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mau⁴ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: móuzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄡˊ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: móuzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: mou²-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: móu-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mou.tzy
    • Palladius: моуцзы (mouczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /moʊ̯³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: móuzǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄡˊ ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: móuzǐh
    • Wade–Giles: mou²-tzŭ³
    • Yale: móu-dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moutzyy
    • Palladius: моуцзы (mouczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /moʊ̯³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mau⁴ zi²
    • Yale: màuh jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mau⁴ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: meo⁴ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐu̯²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

Noun

眸子

1. (anatomy) pupil
2. (anatomy) eye

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瞳孔 (“pupil (of the eye)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		眸子
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		瞳孔
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	瞳人兒
	Taiwan	瞳孔
	Harbin	眼人兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	瞳人兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	瞳人兒
	Xi'an	瞳人兒
	Xining	眼娃娃
	Xuzhou	瞳人兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	眼仁子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	瞳孔, 瞳人
	Wuhan	瞳人
	Guiyang	瞳人
	Liuzhou	瞳人
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	瞳人兒
	Yangzhou	瞳人子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	眼公仔, 瞳人
	Hong Kong	瞳孔
	Dongguan	眼公
Gan	Nanchang	瞳人
	Lichuan	瞳人
Hakka	Yudu	瞳仁, 烏眼仁子
Huizhou	Jixi	仙人頭
Jin	Taiyuan	瞳孔, 黑眼仁兒, 眼睛仁仁
	Xinzhou	瞳人兒, 眼睛仁子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	瞳人, 烏珠
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	瞳子
Southern Min	Xiamen	尪仔頭
	Zhangzhou	尪仔仁
	Taipei (Wanhua)	烏仁
	Kaohsiung	烏仁
	Yilan	烏仁
	Changhua (Lukang)	烏仁
	Taichung	烏仁
	Taichung (Wuqi)	烏仁
	Tainan	尪仔頭
	Taitung	尪仔
	Hsinchu	烏仁
	Penghu (Magong)	目睭尪
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	眼瞳
Wu	Shanghai	眼仙人, 瞳孔
	Shanghai (Chongming)	仙人烏子
	Suzhou	眼仙人
	Danyang	眼孔
	Hangzhou	瞳人兒
	Ningbo	仙人, 瞳孔
	Wenzhou	瞳人, 仙人頭
	Jinhua	瞳人
Xiang	Changsha	瞳人
	Loudi	瞳子

Japanese

Kanji in this term
眸	子
ぼう Jinmeiyō	し Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

眸(ぼう)子(し) • (bōshi) 

1. the pupil of an eye
2. an eye