蟪 — 18 strokes / Radical「虫」
道1University / general (hardest) / 18 strokes / Radical「虫」
- On
- ケイ・エけい・え · kei · e
- Kun
- つくつくぼうしtsukutsukubōshi
- Meaning
- a short-lived cicada
Stroke order
Origin
Insect 虫 with 惠 as phonetic: a kind of cicada.
Compounds
- 蟪蛄けいこ
a short-lived cicada
- 蝉せみ
a cicada
Example
蟪蛄は春秋を知らず。
The short-lived cicada knows neither spring nor autumn.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)