EntryCommonJLPT N4WaniKani 13
  1. Noun

    mirror; looking-glass

    海は鏡のようになめらかだった。
    The sea was as smooth as glass.
  2. barrel head

  3. page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.

    Finance

  4. mirror-shaped mochi

    Abbreviationsee 鏡餅see かがみもち

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

mirror, speculum, barrel-head, round rice-cake offering

Kun
かがみ
On
キョウケイ
Strokes
19
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1506 of 2500
Radical
gold
WaniKani
Level 13

Built from

Used in names as

あきかがかがん

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
1-8-11SKIP code
8a11.6The Kanji Dictionary
8011.6Four corner code
2857deroo
93e1Unicode hex code
1-22-32JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4912Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6341New Nelson (John Haig)
1766New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2219Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1157Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1576Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
483Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
522Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1358A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2817Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
647Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
40812Morohashi
462A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
863Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
882Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
378sakade
1858Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
486henshall3
638Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1034Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1834Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
494Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
jing4Pinyin reading
gyeongKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
13WaniKani level