蟬 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. せみ。分類学でカメムシ目セミ上科に分類される昆虫の、古来の総称。
  2. 言葉を続けること。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「虫」+音符「單」。「セミ」を意味する漢語{蟬}を表す字。なお、音符を変更して「蟺」とも書かれる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

cicada, continuous

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • セン
  • ゼン
Kun (native)
  • せみ
Other languages
  • 拼音chan2 shan4

Basics

Strokes
18 strokes
Radical
虫(むし)
JIS level
Level 3
Unicode
U+87EC

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-6-12