镜
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mirror; lens
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 金 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鏡
- Common rank
- #562
- Unicode
- U+955C
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
mirror · Heisig RSH #488
metal + mirror
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 镜
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 分色镜头 | process lens (working by color separation) | |
| 有色眼镜 | (idiom) biased perspective; prejudice | |
| 镜头语言 | cinematic language (the visual grammar and techniques of filmmaking) | |
| 分镜头 | storyboard | |
| 镜花水月 | lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom); fig. an unrealistic r… | |
| 平面镜 | (physics) plane mirror | |
| 老花镜 | presbyopic glasses | |
| 太阳眼镜 | sunglasses | |
| 反光镜 | reflector (typically concave, as in a torch); mirror (typically plane or convex) | |
| 放大镜 | magnifying glass | |
| 广角镜头 | wide angle camera shot | |
| 镜子 | mirror; CL:面[mian4],個|个[ge4] | |
| 回光镜 | concave reflector (e.g. in spotlight) | |
| 镜头 | camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc); scene | |
| 分镜表 | storyboard | |
| 上镜 | photogenic; to appear on film or in the media | |
| 镜花 | decorative mirror | |
| 分镜 | storyboard | |
| 天文望远镜 | astronomical telescope | |
| 全身镜 | full-length mirror |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 竟 — compare how they read.