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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
- —寄生虫学parasitology; helminthology
- —襟鞭毛虫choanoflagellate
- —冬虫夏草caterpillar fungus (esp. Cordyceps sinensis)
- —爬虫類学herpetology
- —害虫駆除extermination of insect pests; pest control
- —医昆虫学medical entomology
- —衛生害虫disease-carrying insect
- —芽殖孤虫Sparganum proliferum (species of worm)
- —寄生虫病parasitosis; parasitic disease; vermination; helminthiasis
- —貯穀害虫stored-grain insect
- —顎口虫症gnathostomiasis; larva migrans profundus
- —裂頭条虫Diphyllobothrium (genus of tapeworms)
- —夏虫疑氷being narrow-minded due to limited experience; refusing to believe in things outside of one's own limited experience; a summer insect doubts the existence of ice
- —十二指腸虫hookworm
- —虫様突起炎appendicitis
- —ズビニ鉤虫old world hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale)
- —無翅昆虫類apterygotes (wingless insects)
- —有翅昆虫類pterygotes (winged insects)
- —社会性昆虫social insect
- —ヒドロ虫類hydrozoans