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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
- —病害虫(insect) pest; insect carrying disease germs; insect causing damage to crops
- —昆虫食entomophagy; insect eating
- —嚢虫症cysticercosis; measles (in cattle, etc.)
- —旋毛虫Trichinella spiralis; pork worm
- —殺虫灯light trap; electric insect killer; bug zapper
- —蟯虫症pinworm infection; enterobiasis
- —昆虫類Insecta; the insects
- —回虫症ascariasis; roundworm disease
- —虫様垂(vermiform) appendix
- —線虫症nematode infection; nematodosis
- —虫白蝋tree wax; insect wax; Chinese wax
- —線虫学nematology
- —蠕虫学helminthology
- —条虫症taeniasis; cestodiasis
- —褐虫藻zooxanthella
- —捕虫葉insectivorous leaf; trap leaf
- —捕虫嚢insectivorous sac
- —砂虫病sandworm disease; cutaneous larva migrans; CLM
- —黄金虫The Gold-Bug (short story by Edgar Allan Poe, 1843)
- —食虫花insectivorous flower; carnivorous flower; insectivorous plant; carnivorous plant