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(Trad.: 鏡)
Pinyin: jìng
English Definition: mirror; lens
Chinese Definition:
①用来映照形象的器具:镜子(亦指“眼镜”)。镜台。镜匣。镜奁。铜镜。穿衣镜。
②利用光学原理制造的各种器具,上面的镜片一般用玻璃制成:镜头。镜片。眼镜。胃镜。凸镜。凹镜。三棱镜。望远镜。显微镜。
③监察,借鉴:镜戒。
④照耀:“荣镜宇宙”。
Total strokes: 16; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (metal) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ jīn ] gold, metal; money
    • [ jìng ] finally, after all, at last; indeed; unexpected
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Example Words
眼镜 yǎn jìng spectacles; eyeglasses; Classifiers:
镜头 jìng tóu camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc); scene
望远镜 wàng yuǎn jìng binoculars; telescope; Classifiers:
棱镜 léng jìng prism; prismatic lens
显微镜 xiǎn wēi jìng microscope; Classifiers:
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Example Sentences
1
I went to one "audition".
2
What do you see in the mirror?
3
In China we often say, history is a mirror for our guidance.
4
She saw the man from the rear-vision mirror who followed her was standing behind a phone booth.
5
55
Next day we walked the seabed 55ft below where, hours earlier, we had rippled the mirror-like sea with our paddles.