虻
虻 — maeng
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 등에 맹
- Romanization
- maeng
- English
- horsefly, gadfly
- Mandarin
- méng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ボウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- あぶ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 虫 (142, 3 residual)
- Unicode
- U+867B
Japanese words with 虻
- 虻あぶ horsefly; gadfly
- 花虻はなあぶ hoverfly (Syrphidae spp.); syrphid; drone fly (Eristalis tenax)
- 盲虻めくらあぶ deerfly (Chrysops suavis)
- 馬虻うまあぶ horse botfly
- 吊虻つりあぶ bee fly (any insect of family Bombyliidae)
- 牛虻うしあぶ Tabanus trigonus (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; horsefly and wasp
- 虫引虻むしひきあぶ robber fly (any fly of family Asilidae)
- 赤牛虻あかうしあぶ Tabanus chrysurus (species of horsefly)
- 塩屋虻シオヤアブ robber fly (Promachus yesonicus)
- 虻蜂取らずあぶはちとらず attempting two tasks at the same time, accomplishing neither; falling between two stools; catching neither the horsefly nor the bee
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)