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cicada

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Common Words

川蝉翡翠魚狗かわせみひすい (翡翠)しょうびん (翡翠)カワセミNounFreq #19555
1

kingfisher (esp. the common kingfisher, Alcedo atthis)

2

ひすい only

jade (gem)

3

ひすい only

beautiful lustrous colour similar to that of the kingfisher's feathers

蝉せみセミ蟬せびNounFreq #21175
1

cicada; locust

Examples
あみでせみを捕まえた。
We captured cicadas with a net.
2

small-sized pulley

みみずく耳蝉耳蟬ミミズクNounUsually kanaFreq #71559
1

auricled leafhopper (Ledra auditura)

《空蝉》《虚蝉》うつせみNounFreq #75045
1

one's present existence; this mortal frame; this world; this life; temporal things

2

cast-off cicada shell; cicada

蝉時雨蝉しぐれせみしぐれNounFreq #97243
1

Idiomatic expression

outburst of cicadas singing; chorus of cicadas

あぶらぜみ油蝉鳴蜩アブラゼミNounUsually kanaFreq #113630
1

large brown cicada (Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata); aburazemi

初蝉はつぜみNounFreq #169381
1

first sound of cicadas of the year

寒蝉かんぜみかんせんかんぜんNounFreq #207034
1

cicadas which sing in late autumn

法師蝉ほうしぜみホウシゼミNounFreq #211911
1

Meimuna opalifera (species of cicada)

つのぜみ角蝉ツノゼミNounUsually kanaFreq #222009
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treehopper (any insect of family Membracidae, esp. the species Orthobelus flavipes)

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