螙

Meaning

Kanji 螙

grubs in wood

grubs in wood, used figuratively of corrupt officials, worms in books, clothes, etc

Stroke Order

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Unicode code: U+8799

Readings

Kunyomi 訓読み
きくいむし
Onyomi 音読み
ト
Nanori 名乗り
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Jōyō
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JLPT
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Frequency
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Strokes
16
Radical
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Components
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Kanji Kentei
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Similar Kanji
蝨 • 蝱 • 螽 • 蟁 • 蟊 • 蟲 • 𧑉

Example sentences

5 reference sentences

古い柱に螙が入っていた。

There were wood-boring grubs in the old pillar.

蔵の本は螙に食われて穴だらけだった。

The books in the storehouse had been eaten by bookworms and were full of holes.

この布は螙の害を受けやすい。

This cloth is easily damaged by worms that eat fabric.

国をむしばむ螙を取り除かなければならない。

We must remove the rot that is eating away at the nation from within.

民は役所の螙のような役人を憎んだ。

The people hated the corrupt officials who were like vermin in the government office.