镜
mirror; lens
16 strokes
Dict coverage rank #562 U+955C
How 镜 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
钅 (semantic, “metal”) + 竟 (phonetic, jìng)
How to remember it
mirror · Heisig RSH #488
metal + mirror
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 竟
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 竟 (jìng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 竟 sound component | jìng | finally, after all, at last; indeed; unexpected |
| 境 | jìng | boundary, frontier; area, region |
| 獍 | jìng | the Manchurian tiger |
Words containing 镜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 分色镜头 | fēn sè jìng tóu | process lens (working by color separation) |
| 有色眼镜 | yǒu sè yǎn jìng | (idiom) biased perspective; prejudice |
| 镜头语言 | jìng tóu yǔ yán | cinematic language (the visual grammar and techniques of filmmaking) |
| 分镜头 | fēn jìng tóu | storyboard |
| 镜花水月 | jìng huā shuǐ yuè | lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom); fig. an unrealistic r… |
| 平面镜 | píng miàn jìng | (physics) plane mirror |
| 老花镜 | lǎo huā jìng | presbyopic glasses |
| 太阳眼镜 | tài yáng yǎn jìng | sunglasses |
| 反光镜 | fǎn guāng jìng | reflector (typically concave, as in a torch); mirror (typically plane or convex) |
| 放大镜 | fàng dà jìng | magnifying glass |
| 广角镜头 | guǎng jiǎo jìng tóu | wide angle camera shot |
| 镜子 | jìng zi | mirror; CL:面[mian4],個|个[ge4] |
| 回光镜 | huí guāng jìng | concave reflector (e.g. in spotlight) |
| 镜头 | jìng tóu | camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc); scene |
| 分镜表 | fēn jìng biǎo | storyboard |
| 上镜 | shàng jìng | photogenic; to appear on film or in the media |
| 镜花 | jìng huā | decorative mirror |
| 分镜 | fēn jìng | storyboard |
| 天文望远镜 | tiān wén wàng yuǎn jìng | astronomical telescope |
| 全身镜 | quán shēn jìng | full-length mirror |