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insect / bug / worm / CL: 條|条, 隻|只
HSK 4
(of a bird, insect etc) to hatch / (slang) (fig.) to be born / to crack open (an egg, a nut etc)
scaly wing / Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类)
injurious insect / pest
HSK 7-9
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  *翅* | 翅* | *翅
(bound form) wing (of a bird or insect)
Jingzhe or Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-20th March
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  *鬚* | 鬚* | *鬚
beard / mustache / feeler (of an insect etc) / tassel
HSK 7-9
sting / bite (of insect)
DEET (insect repellent) (loanword)
ignorant / doubt stemming from ignorance / (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子)
boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
insect pest / damage from insects
insect / CL: 隻|只, ,
HSK 7-9
Hymenoptera (insect order including ants and bees)
to close (flower, eyes, suitcase etc) / to bring together / (insect or bird when not flying) to fold (its wings)
insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
plant diseases and insect pests
(onom.) chirping of insects, sighing noise etc
Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc)
imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development)
front wing (of insect)
insect or insect-like small creature (literary) / base person (used as a curse word)
(of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc) / (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug) / to drink through a straw
ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye)
insects
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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)
to swat an insect / to get rid of intestinal parasite with drugs
plant diseases and insect pests
haltere (insect anatomy)
back wing (of insect)
seasonal insect (e.g. cicada)
Homoptera (insect suborder including cicadas, aphids, plant-hoppers, shield bugs etc)
insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin
to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound
poisonous insect (or spider etc); venomous snake / (slang) junkie
beneficial insect
Orthoptera (insect order including grasshoppers, crickets and locusts)
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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
Coleoptera (insect order including beetles)
insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people
DEET, an insect repellent
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  *蛀* | 蛀* | *蛀
termite / to bore (of insects)
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  *蠆* | 蠆* | *蠆
(scorpion) / an insect
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  *蠡* | 蠡* | *蠡
wood-boring insect
naiad / larva / developmental stage of insect
mole cricket / Gryllolaptaptidae, family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera (a serious agricultural pest)
beneficial bird (esp. one that preys on insect pests or mice)
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.)
crawling or creeping (of insects)
a white paint applied to tree trunks to protect the trees from insect damage etc
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  *蝮* | 蝮* | *蝮
insect / poisonous snake (archaic)
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
protective coloration (esp. of insects) / camouflage
to repel insects; to deworm
Hemiptera (suborder of order Homoptera, insects including cicadas and aphids)
insect-catching leaf
to soak seeds (in water to hasten germination, or in a chemical solution to prevent damage from insects etc)
Cicadidae, homopterous insect family including cicada
insect damage / destruction of crops by pest insects
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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
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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)
hum / drone / buzz (of insects)
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  *蚽* | 蚽* | *蚽
a kind of insect (old)
Gryllolaptaptidae family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera / mole crickets
Diptera (insect order including flies)
flying insect / winged insect
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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)
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  *囀* | 囀* | *囀
to sing (of birds or insects) / to warble / to chirp / to twitter
insect of the Gampsocleis genus (grasshoppers and crickets) / Gampsocleis sinensis
(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
(of insects) to undergo metamorphosis / (fig.) to be transformed / to metamorphose / to become degraded
song of cicadas / chirping of insects
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  *蠹* | 蠹* | *蠹
insect that eats into books, clothing etc / moth-eaten / worm-eaten
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  *噪* | 噪* | *噪
(literary) (of birds or insects) to chirp / (bound form) to make a cacophonous noise
a summer insect cannot discuss ice (idiom)
dormant insect
bird writing, a calligraphic style based on seal script 篆書|篆书, but with characters decorated as birds and insects
mythological insect that makes people doze off / (fig.) drowsiness / (coll.) person who loves sleeping / sleepaholic
Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类)
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  *蚛* | 蚛* | *蚛
(literary) (of a worm or insect) to nibble / to bite / worm-eaten
boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
to sterilize; to disinfect / to kill; to exterminate (insects, pathogens etc)
(dialect) cricket (insect)
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  *蠁* | 蠁* | *蠁
(literary) insect larva / Taiwan pr. [xiang4]
cricket (insect)
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  *翃* | 翃* | *翃
to swarm (of insects)
mouthparts (of animal or insect)
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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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  *螟* | 螟* | *螟
boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
cricket (insect)
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  *脈* | 脈* | *脈
arteries and veins / vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
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
cochineal insect
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  *蟜* | 蟜* | *蟜
(insect)
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  *蟿* | 蟿* | *蟿
(insect) / Tryxalis masuta


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