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虫 kanji
insect, bug, temper
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
チュウキ
Kun readings
むし
Variant forms
蟲Words with 虫
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —成虫imago; adult (insect)
- —蘭虫ranchu; variety of goldfish
- —鉤虫hookworm
- —精虫spermatozoon; sperm
- —食虫insectivore
- —虫卵insect egg; parasite egg
- —包虫hydatid
- —線虫nematode
- —吸虫trematode; fluke
- —蝗虫rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya)
- —蠕虫worm; helminth
- —個虫zooid
- —虫魚insects and fish
- —虫媒entomophily
- —駆虫exterminating insects; pest control; deinsectization
- —虫国China
- —腎虫giant kidney worm (Dioctophyme renale)
- —捕虫catching insects
- —鞭虫whipworm (Trichuris trichiura)
- —除虫extermination of harmful insects (worms, etc.); disinfestation; pest control