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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huājìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚㄐㄧㄥˋ
  - 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

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.