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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 鏡, the traditional character: 镜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他总是带着黑色眼镜。
He always wears dark glasses.
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他戴眼镜。
He is wearing glasses.
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他把他的墨镜弄丢了。
He lost his sunglasses.
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他拿了面镜子细看自己的舌头。
He picked up a mirror and examined his tongue.
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你一天照几次镜子？
How many times a day do you look at yourself in the mirror?
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你可以用肉眼观星，用望远镜的话，还能看得更清楚。
You can see the stars with your naked eye, and even better through a telescope.
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你的眼镜掉在地上了。
Your glasses fell on the floor.
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你知道显微镜和望远镜有甚么分别吗？
Do you know the difference between a microscope and a telescope?