Word details

きりぎりす

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word きりぎりす.

Dictionary

Entry

りぎりすキリギリス螽斯螽蟖蟋蟀NounFreq #90019
1

Word usually written using kana alone

Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)

2

katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae); long-horned grasshopper

Examples
1匹のキリギリスと多くのアリが野原に住んでいた。
A grasshopper and many ants lived in a field.
3

Archaic

cricket

Character notes

Kanji in this Word

grasshopper

17 strokes

On

シュウ

Kun

いなご

this, thus, such, verbal pause

12 strokesGrade 9

On

Kun

こうか.くこのこれここに

moth larva, grasshopper

18 strokes

On

Kun

けむし

cricket, grasshopper

17 strokes

On

シツ

cricket, grasshopper

17 strokes

On

シュツ

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