U+93E1 "鏡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+93E1 "鏡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a mirror, reflecting its historical and cultural significance in East Asian languages where it is used in traditional and simplified forms across Chinese, Japanese (where it is also read as "kagami"), and Korean (where it is read as "gyeong"). This ideograph is composed of the radical for metal (金) on the left, indicating its ancient origin as a polished metal surface, and a phonetic component on the right, and it appears in Unicode's CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. The character is commonly found in compound words such as 眼鏡 (glasses) in Chinese and Japanese, and it carries symbolic meanings related to reflection, truth, and self-examination in literature and philosophy across these cultures.