Hanja Analyzer
虱

虱 — seul

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
이 슬
Romanization
seul
English
louse; bug; parasite
Mandarin
shī
Japanese on'yomi
シツ
Japanese kun'yomi
しらみ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
8
Variant forms
蝨
Radical
虫 (142, 2 residual)
Unicode
U+8671

Japanese words with 虱

  • 虱しらみ louse (esp. a sucking louse); lice
  • 人虱ひとじらみ Pediculus humanus (species of louse that infests humans); body louse; body lice
  • 頭虱あたまじらみ head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis); head lice
  • 羽虱はじらみ biting louse (any louse of order Mallophaga); chewing louse
  • 床虱とこじらみ bed bug (Cimex lectularius); bedbug
  • 衣虱ころもじらみ body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus); body lice
  • 虱蠅しらみばえ louse fly (any fly of family Hippoboscidae)
  • 木虱きじらみ psylla (any insect of family Psyllidae); psyllid; jumping plant louse
  • 藪虱やぶじらみ erect hedge parsley (Torilis japonica); Japanese hedge parsley; upright hedge parsley
  • 魚虱ウオジラミ Japanese fish louse (Argulus japonicus)
  • 粉虱コナジラミ whitefly (Aleyrodidae spp.)
  • 虱潰ししらみつぶし very thorough search (for contraband, escaped convict, etc.); fine-tooth-comb search; exhaustive search

Other hanja read “슬”

Other hanja with radical 虫

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