虻
- Meaning
- gadfly horsefly
- On reading
- ボウ
- Kun reading
- あぶ
- Nanori
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- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 142
- Grade
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- JLPT
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- Frequency
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Stroke order
Words using 虻
- 虻 あぶ — horsefly
- 虻蜂取らず あぶはちとらず — attempting two tasks at the same time, accomplishing neither
- 花虻 はなあぶ — hoverfly (Syrphidae spp.)
- 盲虻 めくらあぶ — deerfly (Chrysops suavis)
- 馬虻 うまあぶ — horse botfly
- 虫引虻 むしひきあぶ — robber fly (any fly of family Asilidae)
- 吊虻 つりあぶ — bee fly (any insect of family Bombyliidae)
- 牛虻 うしあぶ — Tabanus trigonus (species of horsefly)
- 赤牛虻 あかうしあぶ — Tabanus chrysurus (species of horsefly)
- 水虻 みずあぶ — soldier fly (any fly of family Stratiomyidae, esp. species Stratiomys japonica)
- 虻蜂 あぶはち — horsefly and bee
- 塩屋虻 シオヤアブ — robber fly (Promachus yesonicus)