"Mirror" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 fǎn yìng to mirror / to reflect / mirror image / reflection / (fig.) to report / to make known / to render
 jìng zi mirror / CL:面[mian4],個|个[ge4]
 míng jìng mirror (as a metaphor for sth beautiful, bright and flat &ndash / such as a lake &ndash / or sth that provides clarity and insight)
 fǎn guāng jìng reflector (typically concave, as in a torch) / mirror (typically plane or convex)
 jìng mirror / lens
 jìng xiàng zhàn diǎn mirror (computing)
 jìng xiàng mirror image
 fǎn shè to reflect / reflection (from a mirror etc) / reflex (i.e. automatic reaction of organism)
 hòu shì jìng rearview mirror
 Sī mǎ Guāng Sima Guang (1019-1086), politician and historian of Northern Song, author of Comprehensive Mirror for aid in Government 資治通鑒|资治通鉴
 Zī zhì Tōng jiàn A Mirror for the Wise Ruler (or Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), a vast chronological general history, written by 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] Sima Guang (1019-1089) and collaborators during the Northern Song in 1084, covering the period 403 BC-959 AD, 294 scrolls
 jìng jià eyeglasses frame / CL:副[fu4] / mirror support
 pò jìng chóng yuán a shattered mirror put back together (idiom) / (of marriage) to pick up the pieces and start anew / for a separated couple to reconcile and reunite
 zhào yāo jìng magic mirror for revealing goblins / fig. way of seeing through a conspiracy
 hā hā jìng distorting mirror
 tū jìng convex mirror
 jiàn variant of 鑒|鉴 / example / mirror / to view / reflection / to reflect / to inspect / to warn / (ancient bronze mirror)
 jìng huā shuǐ yuè lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom) / fig. an unrealistic rosy view / viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles / also written 水月鏡花|水月镜花
 qiáng "piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片[pian4]
 āo miàn jìng concave mirror
 kuà component in Chinese characters, mirror image of 夂[zhi3]
 dào xiě mirror writing / upside down writing
 tū miàn jìng convex mirror
 āo jìng concave mirror
 Lǐ Rǔ zhēn Li Ruzhen (c. 1763-c. 1830), Qing novelist and phonologist, author of fantasy novel Jinghua Yuan 鏡花緣|镜花缘 / or Flowers in the Mirror
 Měi rì Jìng Bào Daily Mirror (newspaper)
 pò jìng broken mirror / fig. broken marriage / divorce
 jìng huā decorative mirror
 Jìng huā Yuán Jinghua Yuan or Flowers in the Mirror, Qing novel of fantasy and erudition (early 19th century) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍[Li3 Ru3 zhen1]
  mechanical rotating mirror camera
 jìng xiàng wǎng zhǐ mirror site
 fǎn guāng lú mirror heating facility / mirror furnace
  inspection mirror / extension mirror / search mirror
  inspection mirror / extension mirror / search mirror
 cáng jìng rén man behind the mirror / puppet master / string puller
 duì yìng to be the mirror image of sth / enantiomorphic / antipodal / enantiomeric (chemistry)
 líng huā jìng antique bronze mirror with flower petal edging, most commonly from the Tang dynasty
 hòu zhào jìng rearview mirror (Tw)
 guān hòu jìng mirror showing a view to one's rear (including rearview mirror, side-view mirror, baby view mirror etc)
 tóu píng (computing) to mirror one's screen (to another device) / screen sharing / screen mirroring
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