虫
Meanings
Noun
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 (from a traditional belief of an internal insect)
4. nervousness; fretfulness
5. person devoted to one thing; single-minded person
6. valve core
7. mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck) (Usually kana)
Kanji used
Pitch accent
むし
Used in vocabulary
虫食い
worm-eaten; moth-eaten; holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.; leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren
No-adjective
針金虫
any horsehair worm of class Gordioidea; gordian worm (of class Gordioidea); hair worm (of class Gordioidea); wireworm (click beetle larva)
Noun
Examples34
鳥
The bird was looking for worms.
彼女
She has a strong dislike of insects.
彼
Certainly he is handsome and intelligent, but there is something about him that I can't like.
虫
Even a worm will turn.
この
Keep this insect alive.
日本人
The Japanese enjoy the songs of birds and insects.