Kanji1 / 6
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
- —鉤頭虫thorny-headed worm (any parasitic worm of phylum Acanthocephala)
- —線形虫nematomorph; horsehair worm; gordian worm; hair worm (any of the parasitic nematode-like worms of phylum Nematomorpha)
- —疥癬虫itch mite (Sarcoptes scabiei)
- —虫えいgall (abnormal plant growth formed by insects)
- —吸虫類trematodes (i.e. flukes)
- —肺吸虫lung fluke (Paragonimus westermani)
- —条虫類cestodes; tapeworms
- —放散虫radiolarian
- —越虫貝finely-striate buccinum (Buccinum striatissimum)
- —成幼虫adult and larval stages (e.g. of an insect)
- —駆虫薬anthelmintic; vermifuge; vermicide; insect repellent
- —食虫性insectivorous; entomophagous
- —鞭毛虫flagellate; mastigophoran
- —鉤虫症hookworm disease; ancylostomiasis; ankylostomiasis; uncinariasis
- —蠕虫病helminthiasis
- —防虫網insect net; mosquito net
- —甲虫類beetles; coleopterans; coleoptera
- —爬虫綱Reptilia
- —昆虫綱Insecta (class comprising the insects)
- —花虫綱Anthozoa (class of cnidarians)