กระจก มอง หลัง
“กระจก มอง หลัง” (краджок монг ланг) — rearview mirror in Thai. Noun, level B1. The mirror and the back you know; the look is the verb of glancing. The mirror by which the car looks backward — that is how Thai named it. In a live sentence: “ดู กระจก มอง หลัง ก่อน” — First look in the rearview mirror. Written with the characters ก, ร, ะ, จ, ก, ม, อ, ง, ห, ล, ง. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | กระจก มอง หลัง |
| Read in Latin letters | краджок монг ланг |
| Translation | rearview mirror |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The mirror and the back you know; the look is the verb of glancing. The mirror by which the car looks backward — that is how Thai named it
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ดู กระจก มอง หลัง ก่อนдуу краджок монг ланг конFirst look in the rearview mirror
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “rearview mirror” in Thai?
«กระจก มอง หลัง», read “краджок монг ланг”. In a live sentence: “ดู กระจก มอง หลัง ก่อน” — First look in the rearview mirror. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ก, ร, ะ, จ, ก, ม, อ, ง, ห, ล, ง.
How is “กระจก มอง หลัง” written in Latin letters?
краджок монг ланг. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The mirror and the back you know; the look is the verb of glancing. The mirror by which the car looks backward — that is how Thai named it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.