Kanji1 / 19
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)
On readings
キョウケイ
Kun readings
かがみ
Variant forms
獍Words with 鏡
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鏡映reflection
- —雲鏡cloud mirror; mirror nephoscope; reflecting nephoscope
- —主鏡primary mirror (of a telescope); main mirror
- —副鏡secondary mirror (in a reflecting telescope)
- —鏡筒lens-barrel; lens tube (e.g. of a telescope)
- —和鏡Japanese-style mirror
- —耳鏡otoscope; auriscope; auroscope
- —銀鏡silver mirror
- —膣鏡vaginal speculum; colposcope
- —魔鏡makyō; Chinese magic mirror; bronze mirror that projects a hidden sacred image when reflecting a beam of light
- —粧鏡bathroom mirror; make-up mirror
- —鏡裏image reflected in a mirror; inside of a mirror; other side of a mirror; rear of a mirror
- —紅鏡Sun
- —鈴鏡reikyō; bronze mirror with small bells attached to the rim (Kofun period)
- —花鏡Mirror Held to the Flower (1424 treatise on noh theater, written by Zeami); Kakyō
- —凹眼鏡concave glasses
- —凹面鏡concave mirror
- —三面鏡three-sided mirror
- —三稜鏡prism
- —潜望鏡periscope