鏡

See also 镜

Translingual

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

鏡 (simplified 镜, Yale geng3)

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Japanese

Etymology

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

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

Kanji

鏡 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

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

References

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 鏡子

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Vietnamese

Han character

鏡 (kính, kẻng, gương, kiếng)