メガネ

• 読み: めがね
• ローマ字: megane
• 漢字の分解: 眼 (gan/me) — eye; 鏡 (kyō/kagami) — mirror, lens
• 発音: /me.ɡa.ne/

意味

Glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles. Corrective or fashion lenses worn on the face.

Can be written as 眼鏡 in kanji, but the katakana form メガネ is most common in everyday use. Glasses are put on using かける (to hang/put on face). Common phrases include メガネをかける (to wear glasses) and メガネを外す (to take off glasses). Also used figuratively in 色メガネで見る (to see through colored glasses, meaning to be biased).

例文

1. メガネをかけている人は先生です。
2. メガネがないと何も見えません。
3. 新しいメガネを作りました。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, optician, describing people

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From the kanji 眼鏡 (me 'eye' + kagami 'mirror/lens'). The reading メガネ comes from 目金 (megane), an older word meaning 'eye metal,' referring to the lens frames. Portuguese missionaries may have introduced the first spectacles to Japan in the 16th century.

文化的背景

時代: Edo

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal