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On reading compounds

  • 蝉声 【センセイ】 cicada singing
  • 秋蝉 【アキゼミ】 cicadas that sing when autumn comes
  • 寒蝉 【カンゼミ】 cicadas which sing in late autumn
  • 寒蝉 【カンゼミ】 cicadas which sing in late autumn

Kun reading compounds

  • 蝉 【せみ】 cicada, locust, small-sized pulley
  • 蝉海老 【せみえび】 blunt slipper lobster (species of shovel-nosed lobster, Scyllarides squammosus)
  • 空蝉 【うつせみ】 one's present existence, this mortal frame, this world, this life, temporal things, cast-off cicada shell, cicada
  • 秋の蝉 【あきのせみ】 cicadas that sing when autumn comes, cicadas that sing even in autumn

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chan2
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • cigarra

Portuguese

French

4190 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1774 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
33616 Morohashi
5349 New Nelson (John Haig)
2692 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2731 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-9 SKIP code
1-6-12 SKIP code
5615.6 Four corner code
1-32-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8749 Unicode hex code