蝶
蝶 — jeop
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 나비 접
- Romanization
- jeop
- English
- butterfly
- Mandarin
- dié
- Japanese on'yomi
- チョウ, ジョウ, ショウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ちょう
- Japanese usage
- Jinmeiyō kanji
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,011 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 虫 (142, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8776
Parts that make up 蝶
- 虫 벌레 충, 벌레 훼 고개 든 뱀벌레와 뱀·조개 따위 작은 생물
- 枼 나무 위의 얇은 잎‘엽·접·첩’ 계열의 소리
How 蝶 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 蝶 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 虫, 枼.
Korean example words with 蝶
- 유접遊蝶 Korean gloss: 너울거리며 날아다니는 나비
- 봉접蜂蝶 Korean gloss: 벌과 나비를 아울러 이르는 말
- 화접花蝶 Korean gloss: 꽃과 나비.
- 자접雌蝶 Korean gloss: 나비의 암컷.
- 접류蝶類 Korean gloss: 나비의 종류.
- 고접孤蝶 Korean gloss: 짝이 없는 외로운 나비.
- 군접群蝶 Korean gloss: 무리를 지어 나는 나비.
- 광접狂蝶 Korean gloss: 미친 듯이 날아다니는 나비.
- 접형蝶形 Korean gloss: 날개를 편 나비와 같은 모양.
- 앵접鶯蝶 Korean gloss: 노래하는 꾀꼬리와 춤추는 나비.
- 분접粉蝶 Korean gloss: 나비목 흰나빗과의 곤충을 통틀어 이르는 말.
- 황접黃蝶 Korean gloss: 나비목 흰나빗과의 남방노랑나비, 멧노랑나비, 백두산노랑나비를 통틀어 이르는 말.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 蝶
- 蝶ちょう butterfly
- 蝶々ちょうちょう butterfly
- 蝶鮫ちょうざめ sturgeon (esp. the green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris)
- 蝶番ちょうつがい hinge; joint (esp. an anatomical joint)
- 胡蝶こちょう butterfly
- 蝶貝ちょうがい silver-lipped pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima); golden-lipped pearl oyster; white-lipped pearl oyster
- 白蝶しろちょう any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)
- 国蝶こくちょう national butterfly
- 蝶豆ちょうまめ butterfly pea (Clitoria ternatea); Asian pigeonwings
- 蝶斑ちょうはん raccoon butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunula); moon butterflyfish
- 黄蝶きちょう large grass yellow (species of butterfly, Eurema hecabe); common grass yellow; yellow butterfly
- 小蝶こちょう small butterfly
Other hanja read “접”
Other hanja with radical 虫
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences