鏡

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.3 Kanji 3.3.1 Readings 3.4 References 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

鏡 (radical 167 金+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金卜廿山 (CYTU), four-corner 8011₆)

1. mirror
2. lens
3. glass
4. glasses

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1320, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40812
• Dae Jaweon: page 1820, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4250, character 10
• Unihan data for U+93E1

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

鏡 (simplified 镜, Yale geng3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology

Compound of kaga (“‘shape’”) and mi (“‘see’”).

[edit] Noun

鏡 (hiragana かがみ, romaji kagami)

1. an instrument that reflects an image; a mirror
   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3468)

   夜麻杼里乃 乎呂能波都乎尓 可賀美可家 刀奈布倍美許曽 奈尓与曽利鶏米

[edit] Kanji

鏡 (grade 4 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: きょう (kyō), けい (kei)
• Kun: かがみ (kagami)

[edit] References

• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki [c. 759] (2002). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man'yōshū 3 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240003-4.

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

鏡 (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

鏡 (simplified 镜, pinyin jìng (jing4), Wade-Giles ching⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 鏡子

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

鏡 (kính, kẻng, gương, kiếng)