| 980 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3977 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1449 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2879 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2003 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1531 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 31219X | Morohashi |
| 5092 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1517 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1635 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1229 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 菱亜鉛鉱 【リョウアエンコウ】 smithsonite, zinc spar, szaskaite, calamine, dry-bone ore
- 菱花 【リョウカ】 water chestnut flower, water caltrop flower
Kun reading compounds
- 菱 【ひし】 water caltrop (esp. Trapa japonica), water chestnut, caltrop (weapon)
- 菱垣廻船 【ひがきかいせん】 large Japanese junk
Readings
- Korean:
- reung
Spanish
- castaño de agua
- rombo
- diamante
Portuguese
French
- losange
- mâcre nageante (trapa japonica)
- rhombe
| 1967 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3k8.20 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-8 | SKIP code |
| 2-4-8 | SKIP code |
| 4440.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-41-09 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 83f1 | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 稲子 【イナゴ】 rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya), grasshopper, locust (of family Catantopidae)
- 蝗害 【コウガイ】 locust plague, damage to crops by grasshoppers
- 飛蝗 【ヒコウ】 locust swarming, locust swarm, (swarming) locusts
Kun reading compounds
- 稲子 【いなご】 rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya), grasshopper, locust (of family Catantopidae)
- いなご豆 【いなごまめ】 carob, locust bean
- 羽長蝗 【はねながいなご】 rice grasshopper
- 飛蝗 【ばった】 grasshopper, locust (of superfamily Acridoidea)
- 精霊飛蝗 【しょうりょうばった】 Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea)
- 【コメツキバッタ】 Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea), click beetle, skipjack (beetle of family Elateridae), obsequious person
Readings
- Korean:
- hwang
Spanish
Portuguese
French
| 4169 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 33267 | Morohashi |
| 5361 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 6d9.8 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-6-9 | SKIP code |
| 5611.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-73-91 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8757 | Unicode hex code |
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
| 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 |