Vocab Info
N4 Noun
虫insect, bug, cricket, moth, worm
Dictionary Definition
Noun
1.
insect, bug, cricket, moth
Noun
2.
worm, roundworm
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,See Also:
Noun
4.
nervousness, fretfulness
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Noun
5.
person devoted to one thing, single-minded person
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Noun
6.
valve core
Noun
7.
mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
All Forms
虫 【むし】、蟲 【むし】
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昨日山で虫に足を刺されました。
Yesterday I was bitten on the foot by an insect in the mountains.
夜ご飯の準備中に野菜を洗っていたら虫が出てきた。
I was washing vegetables while preparing dinner and found a bug.
まだ名前のついていない虫が世界には何万種類もいるらしい。
It is said that there are tens of thousands of species of insects in the world that have not yet been named.
夫は娘に悪い虫がつかないように女子校に行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.
祖父は秋になるとよく虫の声を楽しみに縁側でビール片手に夜を過ごしていたものだ。
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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