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虻 — 9 strokes ／ Radical「虫」

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On
ボウぼう · bō
Kun
あぶabu
Meaning
horsefly

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Insect 虫 with 亡 as phonetic: the horsefly that sucks the blood of livestock.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 虻あぶ

    horsefly; gadfly

  • 虻蜂取らずあぶはちとらず

    falling between two stools

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

欲(よく)を出(だ)して虻蜂(あぶはち)取(と)らずに終(お)わった。

Greed left them with neither of the two.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

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Compound

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Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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