漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
蝶: butterfly
JLPT N115 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
- 虫insect(meaning)
- 枼(form)
虫 carries the meaning · 枼 is drawn in
15 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
チョウchou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 蝶ちょうbutterfly
- 蝶々ちょうちょうbutterfly
- 蝶番ちょうつがいhinge
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A wriggly creature moves through the grass! The top part is the head, and the body curves below.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
枼
Also built on 枼
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dié
Same form: 蝶 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 蝶 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 蝶 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dié most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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