Memory phrase for the character: 鏡

鏡

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Meaning

mirror

Pronunciation

KYŌ
kagami

Explanation

 Left: metal 金 (Covered in the ground 土 are 2 gold nuggets 丷), right: to stand 立, below a variation of seeing: 見 (One line is missing: therefore only to "practically" see)

Mnemonic
 
The metal in front of which you stand and practically see yourself, is a mirror.

Radicals

金 gold, metalThis radical is always on the left side of a character.
立 to standA person with wide hips 六 stands upright on the ground 一.




 Vocabulary

鏡 かがみ  mirror
顕微鏡 けんびきょう  microscope
眼鏡 めがね  spectacles, glasses
鏡台 きょうだい  dresser
望遠鏡 ぼうえんきょう  telescope

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