蝉 – vocab dash

蝉せみ

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Meanings

Noun

1. cicada; locust

2. small-sized pulley

Other spellings

せみ

Kanji used

Pitch accent

せみ

Used in vocabulary

outburst of cicadas singing; chorus of cicadas

Noun

laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Noun

Lyristes japonicus (species of cicada)

Noun

blunt slipper lobster (species of shovel-nosed lobster, Scyllarides squammosus)

Noun

slipper lobster of genus Scyllarus (esp. species Scyllarus cultrifer)

Noun

Meimuna opalifera (species of cicada)

Noun

Examples3

あみでせみを捕つかまえた。

We captured cicadas with a net.

セミが鳴ないている。

Cicadas are singing.

「ここって・・・蝉せみの声こえが東とう京きょうと違ちがう」「あらまっ、よく気きがついたこと。貴女あなた、良よい音おん感かんしてるわよ」

"Here ... the sound of the cicadas is different." "Oh my, I'm impressed you noticed. You've got a good sense of pitch!"