虻 — 9 strokes ／ Radical「虫」
道準1University / general ／ 9 strokes ／ Radical「虫」
- On
- ボウ
- Kun
- あぶ
- Meaning
- horsefly
Origin
Insect 虫 with 亡 as phonetic: the horsefly that sucks the blood of livestock.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 虻あぶ
horsefly; gadfly
- 虻蜂取らずあぶはちとらず
falling between two stools
Example
欲を出して虻蜂取らずに終わった。
Greed left them with neither of the two.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)