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むし
Meanings
Noun
1. insect; bug; cricket; moth
There are even trees that fall over because they are eaten by insects.
2. worm; roundworm
3. thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious
from a traditional belief of an internal insect
4. nervousness; fretfulness
5. person devoted to one thing; single-minded person
6. valve core
7. mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
Alt. forms
虫むし
75%
蟲むし
21%
ムシ
2%
むし
Pitch accent
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Used in: 135
Used in vocabulary (190 in total)
hunchback; humpback; crookback; rickets
hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar
rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)
187 more...
Examples (40 in total)
Are you afraid of bugs?
It attracts bugs too, you know.
Insects are everywhere.
There are insects everywhere.
The bird was looking for worms.
There's a bug stuck to your back.
I can't believe you'd get rid of the bugs for me.
Eek, there's a bug!
She hates insects.
Insects are attracted to light.
Which bug hurt you?
Do those insects sting?
The insects in the garden began to chirp.
Bugs have started breeding in the kitchen.
I let the bug I'd caught go.
A bug got into my ear, and it really hurt.
Is it some kind of rare insect?
The early bird catches the worm.
An insect is caught in the spider's web.
There was a dead insect lying by the roadside.
If you open the window, bugs will come in.
There are even trees that fall over because they are eaten by insects.
Children are good at catching insects.
I let the bug I'd caught go free in the garden.
There's a small bug on the underside of the leaf.
There's a big bug clinging to the back of his neck.
In our neighborhood, my son is known as the bug expert.
Even worms are bought for medical research.
Civilization is even changing the lives of insects.
Small insects decompose the fish that have sunk to the bottom.
By doing so, I suppressed my cowardice.
Tom is very good at catching bugs.
I love the outdoors, but I hate bugs.
There is not a trace of people, birds, insects, or even small animals anywhere.
Before he went fishing, he dug up some worms for bait.
We hired a company to get rid of the insects under our house.
"I'm too old to be playing with bugs," said the boy.
The wicked witch cast a spell on the man and turned him into a bug.
The wicked witch cast an evil spell on the man and turned him into an insect.
There are many things that harm young saplings, such as insects, car exhaust, and typhoons.