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蝗

蝗 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. いなご。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声、「虫」+ 音符「皇」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

locust

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • コウ
Kun (native)
  • いなご
  • ばった
Other languages
  • 拼音huang2
  • 한글hwang
  • Hán-ViệtHoàng

Basics

Strokes
15 strokes
Radical
虫(むし)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+8757

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰虫皇

Words using this kanji

  • 蝗虫こうちゅう（こうちゅう）イナゴ。 ばった 参照。rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya)
  • 蝗害こうがいなどによる農作物の被害。locust plague, damage to crops by grasshoppers

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(10 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-6-9
Four Corner
5611.4
Spahn–Hadamitzky
6d9.8
Nelson
4169