To Be Reflected
To Be Projected
intransitive verb, godan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means reflect. The verb vocab version means to be reflected. You're not doing the reflecting directly. You can remember this by thinking how rude (る) it is that someone's reflecting your image using a mirror for everyone outside the dressing room to see.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you:
Your reflection is getting reflected onto the mirror. You don't like it, it doesn't look like you. Impostor reflection! You take a hammer and you 打つ (うつ) it as hard as you can, glass flying everywhere. Then some dubstep starts playing from the broken mirror: うつうつうつうつ.
You might recall that this reading is the same as 写る and might wonder if they're related. They are! They both talk about the image of something showing up somewhere else, and use different kanji to distinguish where. In 写る's case, that would typically be in photographs, and for 映る, it's in reflections or projections (which includes the contents of screens, like those of TVs or computers).
スクリーンにパスワードが映っていますよ。
The password is being projected on the screen.
テレビに映ると太って見えるって本当ですか？
Is it true that you look fatter on TV?
ちゃんとスクリーンに映るかな。
I wonder if it will properly appear on the screen.
今、テレビにお父さん映らなかった？
Didn't Dad appear on TV just now?
テレビ電話をしていると、犬の顔がひょっこり映ってほっこりした。
During the video call, the dog's face unexpectedly appeared and it was heartwarming.
その夜、君と二人で見た、あの水に映る美しい月が忘れられません。
I can't forget the beautiful moon reflected in the water that we saw together that night.