法眼

Chinese

		law; method; way law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.)	eye
simp. and trad. (法眼)		法	眼

Etymology

Calque of Sanskrit धर्मचक्षुस् (dharmacakṣus, “eye of the law”) or Pali dhammacakkhu. The Tibetan equivalent is ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག (chos kyi mig) or ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྤྱན (chos kyi spyan).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fǎyǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄚˇ ㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): faat³ ngaan⁵
Min Dong (BUC): huák-ngāng
Min Nan (POJ): hoat-gán
Wu (Wiktionary): faq nge (T4)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fǎyǎn [Phonetic: fáyǎn]
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˇ ㄧㄢˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faayean
  - IPA ^(key): /fä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ i̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: faat³ ngaan⁵
  - Yale: faat ngáahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸ ngaan⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: fad³ ngan⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /fäːt̚³ ŋäːn¹³/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: huák-ngāng
  - IPA ^(key): /huaʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ ŋaŋ³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-gán
  - Tâi-lô: huat-gán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoatgarn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ gan⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /huat̚⁵⁻²⁴ gan⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /huat̚³²⁻⁵ gan⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ gan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ gan⁴¹/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: faq nge (T4)
  - IPA ^(key): /fa̱ʔ³³ ŋe̞⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: /pɨɐp̚ ŋˠɛn^X/▼

Rime
Character	法	眼
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	乏 (148)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	方乏切	五限切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨɐp̚/	/ŋˠɛn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/piɐp̚/	/ŋᵚæn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/piɐp̚/	/ŋæn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puap̚/	/ŋəɨn^X/
Li Rong	/piɐp̚/	/ŋɛn^X/
Wang Li	/pĭwɐp̚/	/ŋæn^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯wɐp̚/	/ŋăn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fa	yǎn

Noun

法眼

(Buddhism) “eye of the law”; mind which perceives both past and future
(figuratively) insight; astuteness; perspicacity; cognizance

Derived terms

法眼宗

法眼通

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (法眼):

→ Japanese: 法 (ほう)眼 (げん) (hōgen)
→ Korean: 법안 (法眼, beoban)

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