眼鏡

眼鏡

1. glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles (Classifier: 副 m c)

   戴眼鏡 / 戴眼镜  ―  dài yǎnjìng  ―  to wear glasses

   摘眼鏡 / 摘眼镜  ―  zhāi yǎnjìng  ―  to take off one's glasses

   除眼鏡 / 除眼镜 [Cantonese]  ―  ceoi⁴ ngaan⁵ geng³ [Jyutping]  ―  to take off one's glasses

Probably originally a compound of 目 (me, “eye”) +‎ 金 (kane, “metal”, in reference to the metal used in eyeglass frames). The kane changes to gane as an instance of rendaku (連濁). The spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), based on an apparent borrowing from Chinese (see the gankyō reading below).

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) め​がね [méꜜgànè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [me̞ɡa̠ne̞]

眼鏡 (hiragana めがね, rōmaji megane)

1. glasses, eyeglasses

• Korean: 메가나 (megana)

/ɡankjau/ → /ɡankjɔː/ → /ɡankjoː/

Probably a borrowing from written Chinese 眼鏡. Eyeglasses are first mentioned in Chinese in the 1400s as 靉靆 (aidai?), a transcription of an Arabic term. By the late Ming dynasty, eyeglasses appear in writing as 靉靆即眼鏡 (“aidai, i.e. eye-lenses”), using the compound term 眼鏡 (literally “eye + lens”).

Compare modern Min Nan reading gán-kiàⁿ.

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) がんきょー [gàńkyóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɡã̠ŋʲkʲo̞ː]

眼鏡 (hiragana がんきょう, rōmaji gankyō, historical hiragana がんきやう)

1. (military, possibly archaic) glasses, eyeglasses

This reading was mostly used by the military.[3] May be somewhat archaic now.

眼鏡 • (an-gyeong) (hangeul 안경)

1. Hanja form^? of 안경 (“glasses, spectacles”).

Cognate with Japanese 眼鏡 (gankyō, “eyeglasses”), ultimately deriving from written Chinese 眼鏡. Eyeglasses are first mentioned in Chinese in the 1400s as 靉靆 (aidai?), a transcription of an Arabic term. By the late Ming dynasty, eyeglasses appear in writing as 靉靆即眼鏡 (“aidai, i.e. eye-lenses”), using the compound term 眼鏡 (literally “eye + lens”).

眼鏡 (hiragana がんちょー, romaji ganchō)

1. eyeglasses

Compound of 眼 (mī, “eye”, also spelled 目 when used in isolation) +‎ 鏡 (kagan, “mirror; lens”).

眼鏡 (hiragana みーかがん, romaji mīkagan)

1. eyeglasses