蜻 — cheong

Parts that make up 蜻

How 蜻 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 蜻 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 虫, 青.

Japanese words with 蜻

• 蜻蛉とんぼ dragonfly
• 蜻蜒やんま darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae); devil's darning needle; dragonfly (esp. a large one)
• 川蜻蛉かわとんぼ broad-winged damselfly (of family Calopterygidae)
• 鬼蜻蜓オニヤンマ Siebold's dragonfly (Anotogaster sieboldii); jumbo dragonfly
• 銀蜻蜓ぎんやんま lesser emperor (Anax parthenope)
• 蛇蜻蛉へびとんぼ dobsonfly (esp. species Protohermes grandis)
• 昔蜻蛉むかしとんぼ Epiophlebia superstes (species of living-fossil dragonfly endemic to Japan)
• 水蜻蛉みずとんぼ Habenaria sagittifera (species of bog orchid)
• 角蜻蛉つのとんぼ owlfly (any insect of family Ascalaphidae); owl fly
• 黄蜻蛉きとんぼ yellow darter (Sympetrum croceolum) (dragonfly species of East Asia)
• 塩辛蜻蛉しおからとんぼ Orthetrum albistylum speciosum (subspecies of white-tailed skimmer)
• 麦藁蜻蛉むぎわらとんぼ dragonfly

Characters sharing the phonetic 靑

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “청”

Other hanja with radical 虫