鏡

鏡 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金卜廿山 (CYTU), four-corner 8011₆, composition ⿰釒竟)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1320, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40812
• Dae Jaweon: page 1820, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4250, character 10
• Unihan data for U+93E1

Historical forms of the character 鏡
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Probably cognate with 景 (OC *kraŋʔ, “bright”), 影 (OC *qraŋʔ, “shadow”) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014). Gong (2019) identifies the unknown preinitial *C in the reconstruction by Baxter and Sagart (2014) with *s based on evidence from Old Vietnamese, and further posits that it is an instrumental noun derived by prefixation of *s- to the verb 映 (OC *qraŋs, “to reflect”), which is itself a denominal derived from 影 (OC *qraŋʔ, “shadow; image”).

Alternatively, it may be derived from 亮 (OC *raŋs, “to shine”) with the nominalising *k- prefix (Schuessler, 2007; apud Baxter, p.c.).

STEDT compares 鏡, 景 and 亮, among others, to Proto-Kuki-Chin *klaaŋ-I, *klaan-II (“to shine; light; bright”).

This word is relatively late and is perhaps re-etymologized from the nearly identical earlier word 監 (OC *kraːms), 鑑 (OC *kraːms, “mirror”) (Schuessler, 2007), which Wang (1982) treats as cognate. Gong (2019) considers 鏡 to be an unrelated neologism replacing 鑑.

鏡

1. (now in compounds or dialectal) mirror; reflecting glass (Classifier: 塊／块 c)

   鏡子／镜子  ―  jìngzi  ―  mirror

   銅鏡／铜镜  ―  tóngjìng  ―  bronze mirror

   穿衣鏡／穿衣镜  ―  chuānyījìng  ―  dressing mirror

2. (physics, in compounds) lens; -scope

   稜鏡／棱镜  ―  léngjìng  ―  prism

   凸透鏡／凸透镜  ―  tūtòujìng  ―  convex lens

3. (in compounds) spectacles; glasses

   太陽鏡／太阳镜  ―  tàiyángjìng  ―  sunglasses

   護目鏡／护目镜  ―  hùmùjìng  ―  goggles

4. (Cantonese) Short for 鏡頭／镜头 (jìngtóu, “camera lens”). (Classifier: 支 c)
5. ^† to mirror; to reflect
6. ^† to perceive; to observe clearly
7. ^† to use for reference; to draw lessons from
8. ^† clear
9. a surname

Others:

• → Vietnamese: gương
• → Zhuang: gingq

• “鏡”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	鏡
Kyūjitai [1][2]	鏡󠄂 鏡+󠄂? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)^{←きやう (kyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: けい (kei)
• Kun: かがみ (kagami, 鏡, Jōyō)、かんがみる (kangamiru, 鏡みる)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)、かがみ (kagami)、かね (kane)、とし (toshi)、み (mi)

From Old Japanese.

Originally a compound of 影 (kaga, ancient combining form of 影 (kage), “shadow; outline; figure; image”) +‎ 見 (mi, “seeing”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 見る (miru), “to see, to look at”).^[3][4]

• (Tokyo) かがみ (Odaka – )^[4]
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鏡(かがみ) • (kagami) 

1. a mirror (smooth reflecting surface)
   • 1999 March 6, “ミラージュ [Mirage]”, in Starter Box(スターターボックス), Konami:

     手(て)にする鏡(かがみ)から仲(なか)間(ま)を呼(よ)び出(だ)すことのできる鳥(とり)のけもの。

     Te ni suru kagami kara nakama o yobidasu koto no dekiru tori no kemono.

     An avian beast that can call upon its companions from inside the mirror in its hands.

   • 1999 July 22, “アブソリューター [Absolutor]”, in Vol.4, Konami:

     相(あい)手(て)を鏡(かがみ)の中(なか)の世(せ)界(かい)に吸(す)い込(こ)むことができる。

     Aite o kagami no naka no sekai ni suikomu koto ga dekiru.

     It can suck opponents into the world inside the mirror.

2. Short for 鏡餅 (kagami mochi): a set of mochi rice cakes used in New Year celebrations
3. Short for 鏡物 (kagamimono): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
4. (theater) Short for 鏡板 (kagami ita): the panel at the back of a noh stage that is painted with an image of an old pine tree
5. the barrelhead or lid of a sake barrel

   昨日(きのう)、鏡(かがみ)を抜(ぬ)いた。

   Kinō, kagami o nuita.

   They removed the barrelhead yesterday. → They opened the saké barrel yesterday.

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鏡(かがみ) • (Kagami) 

1. a placename
2. a surname
3. a female given name

/kjau/ → /kjɔː/ → /kjoː/

From Middle Chinese 鏡 (MC kjaengH).

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鏡(きょう) • (kyō) ^{←きやう (kyau)?}

1. mirror
2. speculum
3. pattern, model, example

鏡(きょう) • (Kyō) ^{←きやう (Kyau)?}

1. a female given name
2. a surname

鏡 (eumhun 거울 경 (geoul gyeong))

1. hanja form^? of 경 (“mirror, lens”)
2. hanja form^? of 경 (“glass, glasses”)

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

• On (unclassified): ちょー (chō)
• Kun: かがん (kagan)

• 眼(がん)鏡(ちょー) (ganchō)