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蜻 — 14 strokes ／ Radical「虫」

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1University / general (hardest) ／ 14 strokes ／ Radical「虫」
On
セイせい · sei
Kun
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Meaning
used in the word for dragonfly

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Insect 虫 with 青, green, as phonetic: written 蜻蛉, the dragonfly.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 蜻蛉とんぼ

    a dragonfly

  • 蜻蜓せいてい

    a large dragonfly

More words with this kanji

  • 蜻蛉返りとんぼがえり

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

秋(あき)の空(そら)に蜻蛉(かげろう)が群(む)れる。

Dragonflies swarm in the autumn sky.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

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CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 虫Map of reading セイAll maps

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