虫

Meanings

1. insect; bug; cricket; moth
2. worm; roundworm
3. thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious
4. nervousness; fretfulness
5. person devoted to one thing; single-minded person

Part of speech: noun

Kanji

• 虫

  Meanings

  insect, bug, temper

  On reading

  チュウ、キ

  Kun reading

  むし

  Strokes

  6

Example sentences

• 彼女は虫が大嫌いだ。

  She has a strong dislike of insects.

  Tatoeba #87884 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 鳥は虫を探していた。

  The bird was looking for worms.

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• 彼は確かにハンサムで頭もいいかもしれないけど、どこか虫の好かないところがあるの。

  Certainly he is handsome and intelligent, but there is something about him that I can't like.

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