| 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 4
JLPT level N3
678 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 類 【ルイ】 kind, sort, type, class, genus, order, family, similar example, parallel, the like
- 類似 【ルイジ】 resemblance, similarity, likeness, analogy
- 魚類 【ギョルイ】 fish, fishes
- 魚介類 【ギョカイルイ】 marine products, seafood, fish and shellfish
Kun reading compounds
- 類い 【たぐい】 kind, sort, type, equal, match, peer
- 類いする 【たぐいする】 to be equal to, to be as good as, to be a match for, to rival
Readings
- Korean:
- ryu
Spanish
- variedad
- clase
- parecido
- afectar
Portuguese
- espécie
- tipo
- variedade
- classe
- gênero
French
- sorte
- variété
- classe
- genre
| 534 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 632 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 602 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 680 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 5138 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 493 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1012 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2755 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 3.16 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 226 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 226 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 563 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1896 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2275 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1176 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1606 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 940 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 43608P | Morohashi |
| 1807 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6647 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 931 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1000 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 480 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 636 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1061 | 2001 Kanji |
| 9a9.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-9-9 | SKIP code |
| 9148.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-46-64 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 985e | Unicode hex code |