Kanji1 / 8
昆 kanji
descendants, elder brother, insect
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
コン
Kun readings
NoneWords with 昆
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1昆虫Popularinsect; bug
- —昆布Popularkombu (usu. Saccharina japonica); konbu; kelp; any edible species from the family Laminariaceae
- —後昆grandchildren; posterity
- —昆孫sixth-generation descendant; great-great-great-great-grandchild
- —昆弟brothers
- —昆明Kunming (China)
- —昆虫学entomology
- —真昆布Japanese kelp (Laminaria japonica)
- —長昆布Laminaria longissima (species of kelp)
- —酢昆布sour kombu prepared with black vinegar
- —昆虫綱Insecta (class comprising the insects)
- —塩昆布thin strips of kombu cooked in soy sauce, etc. then dried
- —昆虫食entomophagy; insect eating
- —昆虫類Insecta; the insects
- —昆虫採集insect collecting
- —子持昆布kelp with herring roe (sushi type)
- —昆布だしsoup stock made from kombu
- —昆虫学者entomologist
- —無翅昆虫apterygote (wingless insect)
- —有翅昆虫pterygote (winged insect)