虻 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

gadfly, horsefly

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ボウ
Kun (native)
  • あぶ
Other languages
  • 拼音meng2
  • 한글maeng
  • Hán-ViệtMang
  • Hán-ViệtManh
  • Hán-ViệtMông

Basics

Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
虫(むし)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+867B

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰虫亡

Words using this kanji

  • あぶhorsefly, gadfly
  • 虻蜂あぶはちhorsefly and bee, horsefly and wasp
  • 虻蜂取らずあぶはちとらず同時に複数のものを手に入れようとすると一つも手にすることができないということ。attempting two tasks at the same time, accomplishing neither, falling between two stools

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(12 results)

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-6-3
Four Corner
5011.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
6d3.2
Nelson
4117