👥 🎓 📚 📦

蝱

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵

gadfly

HSK 10

Nature →Animals →Insects

ボウ、モウ、ミョウ、ブウ

あぶ

Components

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

蝱

Regular

Modern

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.

JAPANESE WORDS (1)

虻 [あぶ] #59,614