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虻
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

horsefly

HSK 10
Nature →Animals →Insects
méng
ボウ
あぶ
맹
Components
虫 insects+ 亡 deceased =
虻 horsefly
虫 Meaning component
chóng insects
insects, worms
insect
亡 Phonetic component
wáng deceased
old variant of 亡[wáng]
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Notes
Similar Characters
蛊 harm (simp)蜀 short name for Sichuan蟲 insects (trad)烛 taper (simp)融 melt独 alone (jp)触 touch (jp)浊 filthy (simp)繭 cocoon (trad/jp)茧 callus (simp)萤 glow-worm (simp)虮 louse (simp)虰 less common word虱 bug (simp)虹 rainbow虺 large poisonous snake虼 a flea虽 even (simp)虾 prawn (simp)虿 a (simp)
Chinese
虻 [méng]
horsefly; gadfly
Japanese
虻 、 蝱 (old) あぶ 、 あむ (old) 、 アブ 同音
noun usually kana horsefly; gadfly
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
見たこともないような数の虻が、私にまとわりついてきたのです。
More horseflies than I'd ever seen came and flew around me.
CHINESE WORDS (1)
牛虻 [niú​méng] #48,417
gadfly (Tabanus bovinus)
JAPANESE WORDS (11)
虻 [あぶ] #59,614
horsefly
虻蜂 [あぶはち] #165,979
horsefly and bee
虻蜂取らず [あぶはちとらず] #170,500
attempting two tasks at the same time, accomplishing neither
盲虻 [めくらあぶ] #221,820
deerfly (Chrysops suavis)
吊虻 [つりあぶ]
bee fly (any insect of family Bombyliidae)
水虻 [みずあぶ]
soldier fly (any fly of family Stratiomyidae, esp. species Stratiomys japonica)
牛虻 [うしあぶ]
Tabanus trigonus (species of horsefly)
花虻 [はなあぶ]
hoverfly (Syrphidae spp.)
虫引虻 [むしひきあぶ]
robber fly (any fly of family Asilidae)
赤牛虻 [あかうしあぶ]
Tabanus chrysurus (species of horsefly)
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