| 蠅 | |||
| flies | |||
| Radical | 虫 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 13 | Total Strokes | 19 |
| Mandarin reading | yíng | Cantonese reading | jing4 |
| Japanese on reading | you | Japanese kun reading | hae |
| Korean reading | sung | Vietnamese reading | nhặng |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 蝇 | ||
| Semantic Variant(s) | 蝇 | ||
| 蠅 | |||
| flies | |||
| Radical | 虫 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 13 | Total Strokes | 19 |
| Mandarin reading | yíng | Cantonese reading | jing4 |
| Japanese on reading | you | Japanese kun reading | hae |
| Korean reading | sung | Vietnamese reading | nhặng |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 蝇 | ||
| Semantic Variant(s) | 蝇 | ||
| 蠅 | [ yíng ] fly, musca, CL:隻|只[zhi1] |
| 蠅子 | [ yíng zi ] housefly |
| 蠅虎 | [ yíng hǔ ] jumping spider (family Salticidae) |
| ⇒ 如蠅逐臭 | [ rú yíng zhú choù ] like flies pursuing a stink (idiom); the mob chases the rich and powerful, the crowd runs after trash |
| ⇒ 家蠅 | [ jiā yíng ] house fly |
| ⇒ 捕蠅草 | [ bǔ yíng caǒ ] Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) |
| ⇒ 果蠅 | [ guǒ yíng ] fruit fly |
| ⇒ 毒蠅傘 | [ dú yíng sǎn ] fly Amanita or fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) |
| ⇒ 沒頭蒼蠅 | [ meí toú cāng ying ] see 無頭蒼蠅|无头苍蝇[wu2 tou2 cang1 ying5] |
| ⇒ 無頭蒼蠅 | [ wú toú cāng ying ] headless fly (a metaphor for sb who is rushing around frantically) |
| ⇒ 蒼蠅 | [ cāng ying ] housefly, CL:隻|只[zhi1] |
| ⇒ 蒼蠅不叮無縫蛋 | [ cāng ying bù dīng wú fèng dàn ] lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom), fig. no smoke without a fire |
| ⇒ 蒼蠅座 | [ cāng ying zuò ] Musca (constellation) |
| ⇒ 蒼蠅拍 | [ cāng ying paī ] flyswatter |
| ⇒ 蒼蠅老虎 | [ cāng ying laǒ hǔ ] (coll.) jumping spider |