MIRROR    鏡子鏡

FLAT ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR CAUSING one to be ABLE SEE ONESELF in it.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for a mirror is jìng 鏡. [The word is known since the Warring States. Mirrors for the first time appeared in Central China in Shang times, but became no common prior to the Warring States period. Ancient Chinese mirrors were made of bronze, they were of round shape with a button in the centre to hang it up, and their one side was richly decorated. 2. Jiàn 鑒 originally referred to a sheet of copper placed under water to obtain a mirroring effect, but from Warring States times onwards the word came to be used as synonymous with jìng 鏡. [Note that the original character was jiān 監. I have not found evidence that it referred to a copper sheet, but the term refers also to the bronze water basin which could be used like a mirror. It is supported by the form of the character, which represents a man looking at the vessel. In ZUO the term already refers to a bronze mirror, and since the Warring States, the word came to be used together with jìng 鏡.
Modern Chinese Criteria
鏡子 鏡 鑒 壽光先生 凹面鏡 凹鏡 凸面鏡 凸鏡 凹透鏡 發散透鏡 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 6.96

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 238

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  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 2000) p. 804

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  • 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao ( HUANG JINGUI 1995) p. 1395

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 9.1379

    SPIEGEL

  • 中國文化史三百題 ( SANBAITI 1987) p. 296

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

  • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 597

    • Words (3 items)

    鑒  jiàn OC: kraams MC: kɣam
    鑑  jiàn OC: kraams MC: kɣam 15 Attributions

    Jiàn 鑒 originally referred to a sheet of copper placed under water to obtain a mirroring effect, but from Warring States times onwards the word came to be used as synonymous with jìng 鏡. [Note that the original character was jiān 監. I have not found evidence that it referred to a copper sheet, but the term refers also to the bronze water basin which could be used like a mirror. It is supported by the form of the character, which represents a man looking at the vessel. In ZUO the term already refers to a bronze mirror, and since the Warring States, the word came to be used together with jìng 鏡.

      Word relations
    • Synon: 鏡/MIRROR The current general word for a mirror is jìng 鏡. [The word is known since the Warring States. Mirrors for the first time appeared in Central China in Shang times, but became no common prior to the Warring States period. Ancient Chinese mirrors were made of bronze, they were of round shape with a button in the centre to hang it up, and their one side was richly decorated.

      Syntactic words
    • nSHU: mirror (also used abstractly)
    • nab.post-Nfigurativetrue reflector of, true appreciator ofCH
    • nadVin the mirror
    • nfigurativeinstructive example from which to learn as in a mirror
    • npost-Nfigurativemirror of NCH
    • vt(oN)omto reflect (a contextually defined N) in mirror, to mirror
    • vtt(oN1.)+prep+N2mirror the contextually determinate N1 in N2
    鏡  jìng OC: kraŋs MC: kɣaŋ 13 Attributions

    The current general word for a mirror is jìng 鏡. [The word is known since the Warring States. Mirrors for the first time appeared in Central China in Shang times, but became no common prior to the Warring States period. Ancient Chinese mirrors were made of bronze, they were of round shape with a button in the centre to hang it up, and their one side was richly decorated.

      Word relations
    • Epithet: 明/BRIGHT The general term for what appears luminous or bright in the broadest sense of these terms is míng 明 (ant. àn 暗 "dark" and yǐn 隱 "dark"), a word heavily laden with religious overtones.
    • Synon: 鑒 / 鑑/MIRROR Jiàn 鑒 originally referred to a sheet of copper placed under water to obtain a mirroring effect, but from Warring States times onwards the word came to be used as synonymous with jìng 鏡. [Note that the original character was jiān 監. I have not found evidence that it referred to a copper sheet, but the term refers also to the bronze water basin which could be used like a mirror. It is supported by the form of the character, which represents a man looking at the vessel. In ZUO the term already refers to a bronze mirror, and since the Warring States, the word came to be used together with jìng 鏡.

    • 楚文物圖典 Chu wenwu tudian ( CHU 2000) p. 174 - 194 {col. pl. 26-3 - 6, 27-1 - 6}

    • 古代文化词义集类辨考 ( HUANG 1995) p. 1396 - 1400

    • () p. 264 - 276 {tab. 69}

      Syntactic words
    • nmirror
    • npost-Nfigurativemirror of NCH
    • vtoNuse as a mirror (for oneself)CH
    鏡臺  jìng tái OC: kraŋs dɯɯ MC: kɣaŋ dəi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPmirror