| 114 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 74 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 56 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1073 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4115 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 133 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 875 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 324 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 873 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 893 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 466 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1604 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4343 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2199 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2959 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 523 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 32804 | Morohashi |
| 3530 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5275 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 517 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 556 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 60 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1351 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 虫垂炎 【チュウスイエン】 appendicitis
- 虫えい 【チュウエイ】 gall (abnormal plant growth formed by insects)
- 幼虫 【ヨウチュウ】 larva, grub, maggot
- 寄生虫 【キセイチュウ】 parasite
- 虫部 【キブ】 insect radical, worm radical
- 蟻巻 【アリマキ】 aphid, plant louse, plant lice
Kun reading compounds
- 虫 【むし】 insect, bug, cricket, moth, worm, roundworm, thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings, (one's) unconscious, nervousness, fretfulness, person devoted to one thing, single-minded person, valve core, mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
- 虫歯 【むしば】 tooth decay, cavity, decayed tooth, dental caries
- 苦虫 【にがむし】 bitter-tasting bug
- 馬追虫 【うまおいむし】 Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid), Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- む
- Korean:
- hwe, chung
Spanish
- insecto
- bicho
Portuguese
- inseto
- bichinho
- temperamento
French
- insecte
- vermine
- ver
- reptile
- colère
| 1671 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6d0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-6-3 | SKIP code |
| 2-4-2 | SKIP code |
| 5013.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-35-78 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 866b | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
1286 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 腹痛 【フクツウ】 stomach ache, abdominal pain
- 腹心 【フクシン】 one's confidant, trusted friend, trusted retainer
- 私腹 【シフク】 one's own profits, one's own pockets
- 開腹 【カイフク】 making an incision in the abdomen, performing a laparotomy
Kun reading compounds
- 腹 【はら】 abdomen, belly, stomach, womb, one's mind, one's real intentions, one's true motive, courage, nerve, willpower, generosity, magnanimity, feelings, emotions, wide middle part, bulging part, inside, interior, inner part, anti-node, counter for hard roe, counter for containers with bulging middles (pots, vases, etc.)
- 腹痛 【ふくつう】 stomach ache, abdominal pain
- 業腹 【ごうはら】 spite, resentment
- 赤腹 【あかはら】 brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus), Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis), Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster), dysentery
Readings
- Korean:
- bog
Spanish
- barriga
- estómago
Portuguese
- abdômen
- estômago
- barriga
French
- abdomen
- ventre
| 975 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 965 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1345 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3800 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1010 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 852 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1871 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1271 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1345 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1088 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1040 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1308 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 710 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 949 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 475 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 29722 | Morohashi |
| 1034 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4851 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 464 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 503 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 966 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3967 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4b9.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-9 | SKIP code |
| 7824.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-42-02 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8179 | Unicode hex code |