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
- —日本住血吸虫病schistosomiasis japonica; Japanese schistosomiasis; oriental schistosomiasis
- —哺乳類型爬虫類mammal-like reptile
- —日本寄生虫学会Japanese Society of Parasitology
- —ランブル鞭毛虫症giardiasis
- —バンクロフト糸状虫Wuchereria bancrofti (species of filaria)
- —蛔虫roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides); mawworm; intestinal worm
- —蟯虫pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis); threadworm
- —絛虫tapeworm; cestode
- —虫癭gall (abnormal plant growth formed by insects)
- —は虫類reptiles
- —絛虫類cestodes; tapeworms
- —虫白蠟tree wax; insect wax; Chinese wax
- —ギョウ虫pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis); threadworm
- —芽殖弧虫Sparganum proliferum (species of worm)
- —夏虫疑冰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
- —松の材線虫pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus)
- —ぎょう虫症pinworm infection; enterobiasis
- —爬虫両生類学herpetology