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N4 Noun

(むし)insect, bug, cricket, moth, worm

    Dictionary Definition

    1. Noun

      1.

      insect, bug, cricket, moth

    2. Noun

      2.

      worm, roundworm

    3. Noun

      3.

      thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings, (one's) unconscious

      from a traditional belief of an internal insect,

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    4. Noun

      4.

      nervousness, fretfulness

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    5. Noun

      5.

      person devoted to one thing, single-minded person

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    6. Noun

      6.

      valve core

    7. Noun

      7.

      mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)

      Usually written using kana alone, Hanafuda,

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    虫 【むし】蟲 【むし】

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      昨日(きのう)(やま)(むし)(あし)()されました。

      Yesterday I was bitten on the foot by an insect in the mountains.

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      (よる)(はん)準備(じゅんび)(ちゅう)野菜(やさい)(あら)っていたら(むし)()てきた。

      I was washing vegetables while preparing dinner and found a bug.

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      まだ名前(なまえ)のついていない(むし)世界(せかい)には(なん)(まん)種類(しゅるい)もいるらしい。

      It is said that there are tens of thousands of species of insects in the world that have not yet been named.

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      (おっと)(むすめ)(わる)(むし)がつかないように女子(じょし)(こう)()かせようとしているようです。

      My husband is trying to get our daughter to go to an all-girls school so she doesn't get any undesirable boyfriends.

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      祖父(そふ)(あき)になるとよく(むし)(こえ)(たの)しみに縁側(えんがわ)でビール片手(かたて)(よる)()ごしていたものだ。

      My grandfather used to spend his evenings with a beer in his hand on the porch in the fall, enjoying the sound of insects.

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