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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
- —蝶ネジwing nut; butterfly screw
- —極楽蝶swallowtail butterfly (esp. the citrus swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus)
- —赤立羽蝶red admiral (butterfly)
- —せせり蝶skipper butterfly
- —条黒白蝶Pieris melete (species of cabbage white butterfly)
- —蛇の目蝶satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas); grayling
- —棘蝶々魚threadfin butterflyfish (Chaetodon auriga)
- —曙蝶々魚blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus)
- —蝶よ花よbringing up (one's daughter) like a princess
- —蝦夷白蝶black-veined white (species of butterfly, Aporia crataegi)
- —蝶々結びbow; bowknot
- —胡蝶の夢being half awake and half asleep; butterfly's dream
- —蝶々夫人Madama Butterfly (opera by Puccini); Madam Butterfly
- —蝶ネクタイbow tie
- —宝冠白蝶章Order of the Precious Crown, Butterfly
- —西洋風蝶草spider flower (Cleome hassleriana)
- —胡麻蝶蝶魚speckled butterflyfish (Chaetodon citrinellus); citron butterflyfish
- —姫薄羽白蝶Parnassius stubbendorfii (species of swallowtail)
- —黄金蝶々魚pebbled butterflyfish (Chaetodon multicinctus); multiband butterflyfish
- —変わり蝶鮫sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)