Chinese symbol for “lens”
镜片
jìng piàn
Traditional: 鏡片
lens
The closest CC-CEDICT match for lens is 镜片 (jìng piàn), defined as: lens.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “lens”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 透镜 (透鏡) | tòu jìng | lens (optics) |
| 晶状体 (晶狀體) | jīng zhuàng tǐ | lens; crystalline lens |
| 眼镜片 (眼鏡片) | yǎn jìng piàn | lens (in eyeglasses etc) |
| 镜 (鏡) | jìng | mirror; lens |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 镜片.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 镜头 (鏡頭) | jìng tóu | camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc) |
| 眼镜 (眼鏡) | yǎn jìng | spectacles; eyeglasses |
| 镜子 (鏡子) | jìng zi | mirror; measure word: 面 (miàn), 个 (gè) |
| 望远镜 (望遠鏡) | wàng yuǎn jìng | telescope (CL:部 (bù)); binoculars (CL:副 (fù)) |
| 显微镜 (顯微鏡) | xiǎn wēi jìng | microscope; 台 (tái) |
| 镜像 (鏡像) | jìng xiàng | mirror image |
| 照片 | zhào piàn | photograph; 张 (zhāng),幅 (fú) |
| 图片 (圖片) | tú piàn | picture; photograph; 张 (zhāng) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “lens”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.