Kanji1 / 15
蝶 kanji
butterfly
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Jinmeiyō (names)
On readings
チョウ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 蝶
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —蝶結びbow; bowknot
- —蝶形骨sphenoid bone (of the skull)
- —胡蝶蘭moth orchid (Phalaenopsis aphrodite)
- —羽蝶蘭Ponerorchis graminifolia (Orchis graminifolia)
- —紋黄蝶eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)
- —越年蝶eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)
- —太陽蝶sunset morpho (butterfly, Morpho hecuba)
- —立羽蝶nymphalid (any butterfly of family Nymphalidae)
- —蝶形弁butterfly valve
- —蝶々魚Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes)
- —風蝶草cat's whiskers (Cleome gynandra)
- —孔雀蝶peacock butterfly (Inachis io); European peacock
- —箆蝶鮫American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)
- —夜の蝶hostess (at a bar, cabaret, etc.)
- —白蝶貝silver-lipped pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima); golden-lipped pearl oyster; white-lipped pearl oyster
- —黒蝶貝black-lip pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera)
- —池蝶貝Hyriopsis schlegelii (species of freshwater mussel)
- —大蝶鮫beluga (species of sturgeon, Huso huso)
- —帝蝶鮫Sakhalin sturgeon (Acipenser mikadoi)
- —小蝶鮫sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)