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Kanji Detail for 蟀 - "cricket"

  • Meaning

    蟀 means "cricket."

    1. Cricket - An insect of the family Gryllidae (used in compound 蟋蟀).

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    cricket; grasshopper

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    cricket

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    used in 蟋蟀[xi1 shuai4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    cricket (2)

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    蟋蟀 (cricket). An insect name. Also called 促織 (weaving urger). Six to seven fen long. Lives among tiles and stones. Entire body is brown. Has thin wings. In autumn, vibrates wings to make sound. Tail divides into two. Females have short wings. Between the two tail parts is a brown needle.
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