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Kanji Detail for 蛉 - "dragonfly, green caterpillar"
蛉
- Meaning
蛉 means "dragonfly, green caterpillar."
Dragonfly - An insect of the order Odonata (used in compound 蜻蛉).
Green caterpillar - A caterpillar (used in compound 螟蛉).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
dragonfly; moon moth
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
dragonfly, Libellulidae; lacewing
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
sandfly
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
dragonfly, sandfly; Libellulidae
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
蜻蛉 (damselfly). An insect name. Very similar to dragonfly. Old explanations confused them as one thing. Speaking precisely, those that fly very far are dragonflies. Those that always stay near one place and cannot fly far are damselflies. | 螟蛉. Larvae of butterflies. See "螟" for details.
- Onyomi
- Kunyomi
none
- Strokes
- Radical
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