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蝶

JLPT N1 15 strokes Frequency: #2011

Meanings

Butterfly

Radicals

虫

Decomposition

⿰虫枼

Etymology

Pictophonetic: insect

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 15

Stroke Order

1 vertical bottom-to-top

2 corner bottom-to-top

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

5 rising bottom-to-top

6 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 vertical right-to-left

9 vertical right-to-left

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 corner right-to-left

12 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

13 vertical top-to-bottom

14 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

15 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チョウ chou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

56 words total

Other (20 words)

hinge

butterfly

butterfly

alpine butterfly

small cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae)

揚羽蝶アゲハチョウ

swallowtail butterfly (esp. the citrus swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus)

赤立羽蝶あかたてはちょう

red admiral (butterfly)

蝶結びちょうむすび

bow

蝶貝ちょうがい

silver-lipped pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima)

parnassian butterfly

skipper butterfly

bow tie

sphenoid bone (of the skull)

羽蝶蘭うちょうらん

Ponerorchis graminifolia (Orchis graminifolia)

胡蝶蘭こちょうらん

moth orchid (Phalaenopsis aphrodite)

紋黄蝶もんきちょう

eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)

越年蝶おつねんちょう

eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)

太陽蝶たいようちょう

sunset morpho (butterfly, Morpho hecuba)

白蝶しろちょう

any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

蝶ちょう

butterfly

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