玻璃

Chinese
phonetic
simp. and trad.
(玻璃)		 玻 璃
variant forms 玻玏 second round simplified

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali phalika (“crystal”), from Sanskrit स्फटिक (sphaṭika). Cognate with Thai ผลึก (pà-lʉ̀k, “crystal”), Lao ຜະລຶກ (pha lưk), ຜະລິກະ (pha li ka), Khmer ផលិក (phɑlɨk).

gay person
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Pronunciation
Note: bo1 lei4 - literary, rare.
Rime
Character 玻 璃
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 戈 (95) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 滂禾切 呂支切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰuɑ/ /liᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰuɑ/ /liɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰuɑ/ /ljɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰwa/ /liə̆/
Li
Rong		 /pʰuɑ/ /lie/
Wang
Li		 /pʰuɑ/ /lǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰuɑ/ /lie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 pō lí

Noun

玻璃

  1. glass (Classifier: 張／张 m; 塊／块 m)
  2. generic term for any film material with glass-like transparency, such as cellophane, nylon, plastic, etc. (Classifier: 張／张 m; 塊／块 m)
  3. (Wuhan, humorous) eyeglasses; spectacles
  4. (Sichuan, humorous) plain boiled water
  5. (slang) gay person; male homosexual

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 眼鏡 (“eyeglasses”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 靉靆, 眼鏡
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 眼鏡
Mandarin Beijing 眼鏡兒
Taiwan 眼鏡
Tianjin 眼鏡兒
Harbin 眼鏡兒, 鏡子
Jinan 眼鏡子, 鏡子
Muping 眼鏡
Luoyang 眼鏡兒, 二餅兒 derogatory
Jiedian 眼鏡, 鏡子 dated, 二柄子 derogatory
Xi'an 眼鏡
Zhengzhou 眼鏡
Xining 眼鏡兒, 眼鏡兒子
Xuzhou 二餅 humorous
Yinchuan 眼鏡
Lanzhou 眼鏡子, 鏡子, 二軲轆 humorous
Ürümqi 眼鏡子, 鏡子
Wuhan 眼鏡, 鏡子 dated, 玻璃 humorous
Huanggang 眼鏡兒
Chengdu 眼鏡兒, 眼鏡
Guiyang 眼鏡
Guilin 眼鏡
Liuzhou 眼鏡
Yangzhou 眼鏡子
Nanjing 眼鏡, 二餅 humorous
Malaysia 眼鏡
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 眼鏡子
Cantonese Guangzhou 眼鏡
Hong Kong 眼鏡
Foshan 眼鏡
Shunde 眼鏡
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 眼鏡
Doumen (Shangheng Tanka) 眼鏡
Taishan 眼鏡
Kaiping (Chikan) 眼鏡
Dongguan 眼鏡, 二文錢 dated
Shaoguan 眼鏡
Yunfu 眼鏡
Xinyi 眼鏡
Lianjiang 眼鏡
Nanning 眼鏡
Wuzhou 眼鏡
Yulin 眼鏡
Hepu 眼鏡
Gan Nanchang 眼鏡子
Lichuan 眼鏡
Pingxiang 眼鏡
Hakka Meixian 目鏡, 眼鏡
Luchuan 眼鏡
Yudu 眼鏡
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 目鏡, 眼枷仔 dated, 眼枷 dated
Liudui (S. Sixian) 目鏡, 眼鏡, 眼枷仔, 眼枷
Hsinchu (Hailu) 目鏡
Dongshi (Dabu) 目鏡
Hsinchu (Raoping) 目鏡
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 目鏡
Huizhou Jixi 眼鏡
Jin Taiyuan 眼鏡
Xinzhou 眼鏡, 二餅子 derogatory
Hohhot 眼鏡兒
Min Bei Jian'ou 眼鏡
Songxi 眼鏡
Jianyang 眼鏡
Min Dong Fuzhou 眼鏡
Fuqing 眼鏡
Gutian 眼鏡
Ningde 眼鏡
Zhouning 眼鏡
Fuding 眼鏡
Matsu 眼鏡
Min Nan Xiamen 目鏡
Quanzhou 目鏡
Zhangzhou 目鏡
Taipei 目鏡
Kaohsiung 目鏡
Tainan 目鏡
Taichung 目鏡
Wuqi 目鏡
Hsinchu 目鏡
Taitung 目鏡
Lukang 目鏡
Yilan 目鏡
Magong 目鏡
Penang 目鏡
Singapore 目鏡
Philippines (Manila) 目鏡
Pingnan 眼鏡
Chaozhou 目鏡
Shantou 目鏡
Haifeng 目鏡
Wenchang 目鏡
Haikou 目鏡
Leizhou 目鏡
Puxian Min Putian 目鏡
Xianyou 目鏡
Pinghua Nanning 眼鏡, 眼枷
Guilin 眼鏡子
Wu Shanghai 眼鏡, 托力克
Suzhou 眼鏡
Hangzhou 眼鏡兒
Wenzhou 眼鏡, 眼視鏡
Chongming 眼鏡
Danyang 眼鏡子
Jinhua 眼鏡
Ningbo 蔡眼
Xiang Changsha 眼鏡
Loudi 眼鏡
Quanzhou 眼鏡

Derived terms
Derived terms from 玻璃

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (玻璃):

Others:

References
  • Duffus, William (1883), “glass”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 123

Japanese
Kanji in this term
玻 璃
は
Hyōgaiji		 り
Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

玻璃 (hiragana はり, rōmaji hari)

  1. glass, crystal

Synonyms

Derived terms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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