Japanese symbol for “binoculars”
双眼鏡
そうがんきょう
Romaji: sougankyou
binoculars; field glasses
In Japanese, binoculars is 双眼鏡, read そうがんきょう (sougankyou).
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Meanings
- n binoculars; field glasses
Kanji and stroke order
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 双子 | ふたご futago | twins; twin |
| 双方 | そうほう souhou | both parties; both sides |
| 双葉 | ふたば futaba | seed leaves (of a dicot); cotyledons; bud |
| 双生児 | そうせいじ souseiji | twins |
| 無双 | むそう musou | peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled |
| 眼鏡 | めがね megane | glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles |
| 眼科 | がんか ganka | ophthalmology |
| 肉眼 | にくがん nikugan | naked eye |
| 望遠鏡 | ぼうえんきょう bouenkyou | telescope |
See also: Chinese symbol for “binoculars”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.