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
- —食道鏡esophagoscope; oesophagoscope
- —鏡像体enantiomer
- —眼鏡店optician; optician's store
- —八卦鏡bagua mirror (mirror used in divination in fengshui); pa kua mirror
- —八角鏡octagonal mirror
- —喉頭鏡laryngoscope
- —関節鏡arthroscope
- —額帯鏡head mirror
- —結腸鏡colonoscope
- —口腔鏡stomatoscope
- —肛門鏡anoscope; proctoscope; rectal speculum
- —千里鏡telescope
- —明鏡止水clear and serene (as a polished mirror and still water)
- —鏡花水月flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words
- —大円鏡智adarsa-jnana (great-perfect-mirror wisdom, wisdom clearly elucidating all things)
- —鏡面反射specular reflection
- —胃内視鏡gastroscope
- —鏡映文字mirror writing; mirrored script
- —銀鏡反応silver mirror reaction
- —気管支鏡bronchoscope