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虫
虫 is a Japanese kanji written with 6 strokes, listed here under the keyword “insect”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 556. It appears as a component in 36 other characters in this index.
- Keyword
- insect
- RTK frame
- 556
- Strokes
- 6
- On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
- チュウ, キ
- Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
- むし
- Script
- Japanese kanji
- Also known as
- насекомое
- Same glyph as a simplified Chinese hanzi
- 虫 insects
Decomposition
No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.
Characters that contain 虫
- 蛍 lightning bug
- 蛇 snake
- 虹 rainbow
- 蝶 butterfly
- 独 single
- 蚕 silkworm
- 風 wind
- 蜜 honey
- 濁 voiced
- 融 dissolve
- 強 strong
- 蜂 bee
- 蚊 mosquito
- 蛮 barbarian
- 触 contact
- 繭 cocoon
- 騒 boisterous
- 掻 scratch
- 蚤 flea
- 蟹 crab
- 蛋 protein
- 蟄 hibernation
- 蝿 housefly
- 蟻 ant
- 蝋 wax
- 蝦 shrimp
- 蛸 octopus
- 螺 screw
- 蝉 cicada
- 蛙 frog
- 蛾 moth
- 蛤 clam
- 蛭 leech
- 蛎 oyster
- 蝕 eclipse
- 燭 candlelight
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