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mirror

On-Yomi: キョウ、ケイ — Kun-Yomi: かがみ

Elements:

mirror, metal, gold, mirror, vase, stand up, sun, day, human legs

Primitive:

mirror(lustro) This primitive gets its meaning from the following FRAME. It shows a pair of human legs and a tongue-wagging mouth looking at a mirror standing on the wall, asking perhaps who might be the fairest of them all. [11]

Heisig story:

After lakes but before glass, polished metal was used for mirrors. These metal mirrors are recalled in this character for a mirror.

Koohii stories:

1) [AndamanIslander] 3-2-2008(270): Mirror should suggest vanity. Imagine a spoiled girl who gets her parents to buy her a Golden mirror so she can stand in front of it all day vainly admiring her lovely human legs.

2) [digicult] 16-4-2009(23): The metal mirror makes a sound - it's answering the question "who has the fairest human legs of all?".

3) [tritonxginnenglish] 5-10-2006(23): metal + stand up + sun + legs remember the legend of Amaterasu who retired in a cave. the other Gods brought a MIRROR made of polished METAL at the entrance of the cave. Amaterasu who was STANDING UP saw her image of the SUN and began to dance with her LEGS.

4) [matt_jenkins] 13-4-2008(12): Remember how Archimedes burnt an approaching fleet with mirrors? Mirrors then were metal and the sailors must have thought: "What're those metal things up there, standing on the city walls? They look like little suns on human legs. Warm today isn't it?".

5) [Codexus] 9-12-2007(11): WARNING: Be extra careful not to confuse the sun/tongue-wagging mouth and human legs part of the mirror primitive with 見 see (#57 見).

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