Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
insect, bug, temper
Kun:
むし
On:
チュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1351 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chong2, hui3
Korean:
hwe, chung

Spanish

  • insecto
  • bicho

Portuguese

  • inseto
  • bichinho
  • temperamento

French

  • insecte
  • vermine
  • ver
  • reptile
  • colère
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)
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

13 strokes
Radical:
horn
Parts:
Variants:
contact, touch, feel, hit, proclaim, announce, conflict
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
904 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 触媒 【ショクバイ】 catalyst
  • 触発 【ショクハツ】 detonation by contact, contact detonation, touching off (something), triggering, sparking, provocation, inspiration
  • 鎧袖一触 【ガイシュウイッショク】 (beating someone) hands down, with a single blow
  • 濃厚接触 【ノウコウセッショク】 close contact (with an infected person)

Kun reading compounds

  • 触れる 【ふれる】 to touch, to feel, to touch (with), to experience, to come in contact with, to perceive, to touch on (a subject), to allude to, to refer to, to mention, to bring up, to be in conflict with, to violate (law, copyright, etc.), to infringe, to proclaim, to make known, to spread (e.g. a rumour)
  • 触る 【さわる】 to touch, to feel, to get involved (with), to approach, to be harmful to, to hinder, to interfere with, to irritate
  • 触る 【さわる】 to touch, to feel, to get involved (with), to approach, to be harmful to, to hinder, to interfere with, to irritate
  • 触らぬ神に祟りなし 【さわらぬかみにたたりなし】 let sleeping dogs lie, wake not a sleeping lion, the spirit you do not approach will not curse you

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chu4
Korean:
chog

Spanish

  • tocar
  • percibir
  • mencionar
  • proclamar
  • anunciar

Portuguese

  • contato
  • tocar
  • sentir
  • acesso
  • proclamar
  • anunciar
  • conflito

French

  • contact
  • toucher
  • sentir
  • frapper
  • proclamer
  • annoncer
  • conflit
1428 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1256 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4305 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
945 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
893 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
874 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
894 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1382 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1652 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1914 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1018 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1376 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1830 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35070 Morohashi
1518 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5547 New Nelson (John Haig)
1813 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1954 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1663 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2571 2001 Kanji
6d7.10 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-6 SKIP code
2523.6 Four corner code
1-31-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
89e6 Unicode hex code