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鏡

JLPT N1 SL4 19 strokes Frequency: #1506

Meanings

Mirror, Speculum, Barrel-head, Round Rice-cake Offering

Radicals

釒

Decomposition

⿰釒竟

Etymology

Pictophonetic: metal

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 19

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 dot top-left-to-bottom-right

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical right-to-left

6 dot bottom-to-top

7 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 rising bottom-to-top

9 vertical right-to-left

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 dot right-to-left

12 diagonal right-to-left

13 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

14 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

15 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

16 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

17 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

18 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

19 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

キョウ kyou

ケイ kei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

かがみ kagami

Words Using This Kanji

172 words total

Other (20 words)

内視鏡検査ないしきょうけんさ

endoscopy

真澄の鏡ますみのかがみ

perfectly clear mirror

主鏡しゅきょう

primary mirror (of a telescope)

eyepiece

space telescope

solar telescope

lens-barrel

secondary mirror (in a reflecting telescope)

和鏡わきょう

Japanese-style mirror

柄鏡えかがみ

traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period

箱眼鏡はこめがね

water glass

真澄鏡まそかがみ

perfectly clear mirror

photomicrograph

snow goggles

colonoscope

esophagoscope

ultramicroscope

arthroscopy

enantiomer

room behind the curtain of a noh stage, where the actors prepare

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