鑑

鑑 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+14 in Chinese, 金+15 in Japanese, 22 strokes in Chinese, 23 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 金尸戈廿 (CSIT) or 金尸一廿 (CSMT), four-corner 8811₇, composition ⿰釒監)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1325, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40988
• Dae Jaweon: page 1826, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4267, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9451

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kraːm, *kraːms, *kraːms) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 監 (OC *kraːm, *kraːms).

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: けん (ken)^{←けん (ken, historical)←けむ (kemu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←かん (kan, historical)←かむ (kamu, ancient)}
• Kun: かんがみる (kangamiru, 鑑みる, Jōyō)、かがみ (kagami, 鑑)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)、かた (kata)、かね (kane)、しげ (shige)、のり (nori)、み (mi)、みる (miru)

From Old Japanese.

Extension of 鏡 (kagami, “mirror”), as such objects are usually seen as reflected like a mirror.^[1]

• (Tokyo) かがみ (Odaka – )^[1]
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鑑(かがみ) • (kagami) 

1. an example, exemplar, model, pattern

   Synonyms: 亀鑑 (kikan), 手本 (tehon), 模範 (mohan)

鑑(かがみ) • (Kagami) 

1. a surname

/kam/ → /kamʉ/ → /kaɴ/

From Middle Chinese 鑒 (MC kaemH).

鑑(かん) • (kan) 

1. a kind of ancient Chinese bronzeware
2. an example, exemplar, model, pattern

鑑(かん) • (kan) 

1. example, exemplar
2. model, pattern
3. inspect, examine
4. evaluate

Nominalization of the stem of adjective 明らか (akiraka, “clear”).

鑑(あきら) • (Akira) 

1. a male or female given name

• 鑒

From Middle Chinese 鑒 (MC kaemH). Recorded as Middle Korean 감〯 (kǎm) (Yale: kam) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

鑑

Wikisource

鑑 (eumhun 거울 감 (geoul gam))

1. hanja form^? of 감 (“mirror; inspection”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
• Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 대법원, Daehanmin'guk Daebeobwon) (2018). Table of hanja for personal names (인명용 한자표 / 人名用漢字表, Inmyeong-yong hanja-pyo), page 1.

Extension of 鏡 (kagami₁, “mirror”), as such objects are usually seen as reflected like a mirror.^[1]

鑑 (kagami₁) (kana かがみ)

1. an example, exemplar, model, pattern
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 20, poem 4465:
     , text here

     ...美流比等乃可多里都芸弖低伎久比等能可我見爾世武乎...

     ...mi₁ru pi₁to₂ no₂ kataritugi₁tete ki₁ku pi₁to₂ no₂ kagami₁ ni semu wo...

     All who see will pass it down, all who hear will make it as a mirror.^[2]

• Japanese: 鑑 (kagami)

鑑: Hán Nôm readings: giám, gương

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