轡虫
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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轡 | 虫 |
くつわ Hyōgai |
むし Grade: 1 |
kun'yomi |
Alternative spellings |
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轡蟲 (kyūjitai) くつわ虫 |
Noun
[edit]轡虫 or 轡虫 • (kutsuwa mushi)
- giant katydid, Mecopoda niponensis, a species of katydid in the family Tettigoniidae
- (figurative) a noisy person, noisy people
Usage notes
[edit]As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as クツワムシ.
References
[edit]- Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- Yoshiro Kojima, Shigeru Takebayashi, Keisuke Nakao, and Hideo Masuda, editors (2005), Luminous Japanese-English Dictionary, second edition, Kenkyusha
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 轡 read as くつわ
- Japanese terms spelled with 虫 read as むし
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms with multiple readings
- Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- ja:Crickets and grasshoppers