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insect / bug / worm / CL: 條|条, 隻|只
HSK 4
insect / CL: 隻|只, ,
HSK 7-9
injurious insect / pest
HSK 7-9
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  *鬚* | 鬚* | *鬚
beard / mustache / feeler (of an insect etc) / tassel
HSK 7-9
Diptera (insect order including flies)
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  *蟲* | 蟲* | *蟲
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL: 條|条, 隻|只 / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
insect pest / damage from insects
dormant insect
Cicadidae, homopterous insect family including cicada
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  *蚽* | 蚽* | *蚽
a kind of insect (old)
insect or insect-like small creature (literary) / base person (used as a curse word)
cricket (insect)
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  *吟* | 吟* | *吟
to chant; to recite / verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems) / (literary) to lament; to groan / (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects / (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴) (cf. , wide vibrato)
insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
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  *翅* | 翅* | *翅
(bound form) wing (of a bird or insect)
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  *芸* | 芸* | *芸
common rue (Ruta graveolens) / (used in old compounds relating to books because in former times rue was used to protect books from insect damage)
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  *鳴* | 鳴* | *鳴
to cry (of birds, animals and insects) / to make a sound / to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)
boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
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  *熰* | 熰* | *熰
copious smoke produced by smoldering firewood / half alight / to use the smoke of burning wormwood etc to repel insects
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  *脈* | 脈* | *脈
arteries and veins / vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
(of insects) to undergo metamorphosis / (fig.) to be transformed / to metamorphose / to become degraded
(of paint etc) to peel off; to flake off / (of an insect or snake etc) to molt / (of skin) to peel off due to hard labor, blistering or sunburn etc / (fig.) to go through a grueling experience
plant diseases and insect pests
(of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc) / (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug) / to drink through a straw
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  *蠱* | 蠱* | *蠱
arch. legendary venomous insect / to poison / to bewitch / to drive to insanity / to harm by witchcraft / intestinal parasite
to repel insects; to deworm
to soak seeds (in water to hasten germination, or in a chemical solution to prevent damage from insects etc)
sting / bite (of insect)
seasonal insect (e.g. cicada)
to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound
(onom.) chirping of insects, sighing noise etc
poisonous insect (or spider etc); venomous snake / (slang) junkie
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  *蠡* | 蠡* | *蠡
wood-boring insect
insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin
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  *蠁* | 蠁* | *蠁
(literary) insect larva / Taiwan pr. [xiang4]
flying insect / winged insect
mythological insect that makes people doze off / (fig.) drowsiness / (coll.) person who loves sleeping / sleepaholic
insect damage / destruction of crops by pest insects
beneficial insect
insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people
cricket (insect)
Hymenoptera (insect order including ants and bees)
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  *蛀* | 蛀* | *蛀
termite / to bore (of insects)
naiad / larva / developmental stage of insect
Coleoptera (insect order including beetles)
mole cricket / Gryllolaptaptidae, family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera (a serious agricultural pest)
to close (flower, eyes, suitcase etc) / to bring together / (insect or bird when not flying) to fold (its wings)
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  *螟* | 螟* | *螟
boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
Orthoptera (insect order including grasshoppers, crickets and locusts)
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  *蠆* | 蠆* | *蠆
(scorpion) / an insect
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  *蠹* | 蠹* | *蠹
insect that eats into books, clothing etc / moth-eaten / worm-eaten
imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development)
boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
(dialect) cricket (insect)
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  *蚛* | 蚛* | *蚛
(literary) (of a worm or insect) to nibble / to bite / worm-eaten
beneficial bird (esp. one that preys on insect pests or mice)
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  *蟿* | 蟿* | *蟿
(insect) / Tryxalis masuta
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  *囀* | 囀* | *囀
to sing (of birds or insects) / to warble / to chirp / to twitter
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  *蝮* | 蝮* | *蝮
insect / poisonous snake (archaic)
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  *翃* | 翃* | *翃
to swarm (of insects)
bird writing, a calligraphic style based on seal script 篆書|篆书, but with characters decorated as birds and insects
front wing (of insect)
levitation (of Daoist immortal) / to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven / (in Daoism) to become immortal / to die / of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form / eclosion
crawling or creeping (of insects)
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  *蟜* | 蟜* | *蟜
(insect)
insect-catching leaf
Waking from Hibernation / old variant of 驚蟄|惊蛰, Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-20th March
scaly wing / Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类)
to sterilize; to disinfect / to kill; to exterminate (insects, pathogens etc)
back wing (of insect)
ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye)
protective coloration (esp. of insects) / camouflage
Hemiptera (suborder of order Homoptera, insects including cicadas and aphids)
Homoptera (insect suborder including cicadas, aphids, plant-hoppers, shield bugs etc)
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  *噪* | 噪* | *噪
(literary) (of birds or insects) to chirp / (bound form) to make a cacophonous noise
insects
a summer insect cannot discuss ice (idiom)
cochineal insect
insect of the Gampsocleis genus (grasshoppers and crickets) / Gampsocleis sinensis
Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc)
mouthparts (of animal or insect)
hum / drone / buzz (of insects)
a white paint applied to tree trunks to protect the trees from insect damage etc
haltere (insect anatomy)
DEET (insect repellent) (loanword)
to swat an insect / to get rid of intestinal parasite with drugs
ignorant / doubt stemming from ignorance / (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子)
plant diseases and insect pests
green rice caterpillar or similar insect larva / adopted son (Etymology: Wasps of a particular species take caterpillars to their nest as food for their offspring, but it was mistakenly believed that the wasps were raising the caterpillars as their own young.)
Gryllolaptaptidae family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera / mole crickets
song of cicadas / chirping of insects
DEET, an insect repellent
Jingzhe or Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-20th March
Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类)


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