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鏡 kanji
mirror, speculum, barrel-head, round rice-cake offering
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 19
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
キョウケイ
Kun readings
かがみ
Variant forms
獍Words with 鏡
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2顕微鏡Popularmicroscope
- N2望遠鏡Populartelescope
- N1眼鏡glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles
- —鏡台Populardresser; dressing table; vanity table
- —双眼鏡Popularbinoculars; field glasses
- —胃鏡gastroscope
- —鏡像reflection in a mirror; reflected image; mirror image; inverse (of a point); mirror image
- —鏡面mirror surface; lens surface
- —凸鏡convex mirror
- —円鏡round mirror
- —検鏡microscopic examination; microscopy
- —明鏡polished mirror; clear mirror
- —破鏡broken mirror; marital separation; divorce; partially eclipsed moon
- —銅鏡bronze mirror
- —神鏡divine mirror; sacred mirror (one of the three sacred treasures)
- —鏡鑑paragon; mirror
- —鏡高height of a mirror stand
- —翼鏡speculum (bright patch on the wings of ducks)
- —鏡匣mirror case
- —鸞鏡mirror with a mythical Chinese bird carved into the back; (in Japan) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp)