See also: 眼镜

Chinese

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eye mirror; lens
trad. (眼鏡)
simp. (眼镜)
Literally: “eye lens”.

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眼鏡

  1. glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles (Classifier: m c) [from 16th c.]
    眼鏡眼镜  ―  dài yǎnjìng  ―  to wear glasses
    眼鏡眼镜  ―  zhāi yǎnjìng  ―  to take off one's glasses
    眼鏡眼镜 [Cantonese]  ―  ceoi4 ngaan5 geng3-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to take off one's glasses

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Sino-Xenic (眼鏡):

Japanese

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
かね > がね
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
 
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眼鏡 (megane, gankyō): a pair of eyeglasses.

Probably originally a compound of (me, eye) +‎ (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 based on an apparent borrowing from Chinese, see the gankyō reading below.

Appears in texts from the late 1500s.[1]

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()(がね) (megane

  1. glasses, eyeglasses
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Kanji in this term
がん
Grade: 5
きょう
Grade: 4
kan'on goon

/ɡankjau//ɡankjɔː//ɡankjoː/

Probably a borrowing from written Chinese 眼鏡眼镜 (yǎnjìng). Eyeglasses are first mentioned in Chinese in the 1400s as 靉靆叆叇 (aidai?), a transcription of an Arabic term. By the late Ming dynasty, eyeglasses appear in writing as 靉靆即眼鏡叆叇即眼镜 (aidai, i.e. eye-lenses), using the compound term 眼鏡眼镜 (yǎnjìng, literally eye + lens). Compare modern Min Nan reading gán-kiàⁿ.

This reading appears in texts from the 1920s.[1]

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(がん)(きょう) (gankyōがんきやう (gankyau)?

  1. (military, possibly archaic) glasses, eyeglasses
Usage notes
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This reading was mostly used by the military.[1] The standalone term gankyō may be somewhat archaic now.

Note that there are compounds that end in 眼鏡 (gankyō) that appear to be derived from this term. However, Japanese sources parse these as deriving from other terms ending in (gan, eye) that are then suffixed with (kyō, lens).

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

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眼鏡 (an'gyeong) (hangeul 안경)

  1. hanja form? of 안경 (glasses, spectacles)

Okinawan

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
Grade: 5 Grade: 4

Cognate with mainland Japanese 眼鏡 (gankyō), ultimately deriving from written Chinese 眼鏡眼镜 (yǎnjìng). Eyeglasses are first mentioned in Chinese in the 1400s as 靉靆叆叇 (aidai?), a transcription of an Arabic term. By the late Ming dynasty, eyeglasses appear in writing as 靉靆即眼鏡叆叇即眼镜 (aidai, i.e. eye-lenses), using the compound term 眼鏡眼镜 (yǎnjìng, literally eye + lens). Compare modern Min Nan reading gán-kiàⁿ.

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眼鏡(がんちょー) (ganchō

  1. eyeglasses
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Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
Grade: 5 Grade: 4

Compound of (, eye, also spelled when used in isolation) +‎ (kagan, mirror, lens).

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眼鏡(みーかがん) (mīkagan

  1. eyeglasses
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