| 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 N1
1720 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 垂直 【スイチョク】 vertical, perpendicular
- 垂纓 【スイエイ】 hanging tail (of a traditional Japanese hat), drooping tail
- 口蓋垂 【コウガイスイ】 uvula
- 虫垂 【チュウスイ】 (vermiform) appendix
Kun reading compounds
- 垂れる 【たれる】 to hang, to droop, to dangle, to sag, to lower, to pull down, to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status), to confer, to grant, to bestow, to drip, to ooze, to trickle, to drop, to leave behind (at death), to say, to utter, to excrete (urine, feces, etc.), to let out (a fart)
- 垂らす 【たらす】 to dribble, to spill, to suspend, to hang down, to slouch, to dangle
- 垂れ 【たれ】 sauce (esp. soy or mirin-based dipping sauce), hanging, something hanging (flap, lappet, etc.), (kendo) loin guard, kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character, woman, -ass, -head
- 垂れ幕 【たれまく】 hanging banner, hanging screen, curtain
- 直垂 【ひたたれ】 ancient ceremonial court robe
- 垂んとす 【なりなんとす】 to close in on (a certain age, etc.), to approach, to get close to
- 垂んとする 【なんなんとする】 to close in on (30 years of age, etc.), to approach, to get close to
Readings
- Japanese names:
- たる、 だれ
- Korean:
- su
Spanish
- estar colgado
- colgar
- suspender
Portuguese
- declínio
- suspender
- pendurar
- negligente
French
- pendre
- suspendre
- tomber
- être avachi
- goutter
| 918 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 907 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1716 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 211 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1214 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1150 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 761 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1070 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1117 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1322 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 350 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4382 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2219 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2985 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1596 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 5012 | Morohashi |
| 3565 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 999 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1582 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1705 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 866 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2272 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a8.12 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-8-2 | SKIP code |
| 2-1-7 | SKIP code |
| 2010.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-31-66 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5782 | Unicode hex code |