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JLPT N4 · Noun

虫 (mushi)

虫 (むし, mushi) is a Japanese noun meaning “insect; bug”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
むし
Romaji
mushi
Word class
Noun
Level
JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. insect; bug; cricket; moth · noun
  2. worm; roundworm · noun
  3. thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious · noun · from a traditional belief of an internal insect
  4. nervousness; fretfulness · noun
  5. person devoted to one thing; single-minded person · noun

Example sentences

彼女は虫が大嫌いだ。
She has a strong dislike of insects.
Tatoeba #87884
鳥は虫を探していた。
The bird was looking for worms.
Tatoeba #125784
彼は確かにハンサムで頭もいいかもしれないけど、どこか虫の好かないところがあるの。
Certainly he is handsome and intelligent, but there is something about him that I can't like.
Tatoeba #108915

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Kanji in 虫

虫
insect, bug, temperチュウ・キ・むし · 6 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 虫.

虫歯むしばtooth decay昆虫こんちゅうinsect

Source: JMdict entry 1426680 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.