Hanja Analyzer
鑒

鑒 — gam

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
거울[鑑] 감
Romanization
gam
English
mirror, looking glass; reflect
Mandarin
jiàn
Japanese on'yomi
カン
Japanese kun'yomi
かんが.みる かがみ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
22
Variant forms
鑑
Radical
金 (167, 14 residual)
Phonetic component
監
Unicode
U+9452

How 鑒 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 鑒 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 金, 監.

Korean example words with 鑒

  • 지감智鑒 Korean gloss: 사물을 깨달아 아는 능력
  • 아감雅鑒 Korean gloss: ‘보여 드립니다’라는 뜻으로, 자기가 쓴 글시나 그림 따위를 남에게 정중하게 보낼 때 쓰는 말.

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 鑒

  • 降鑒こうかん the gods watching over humans from the heavens

Characters sharing the phonetic 監

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “감”

Other hanja with radical 金

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences