| 蚊 | |||
| mosquito; gnat | |||
| Radical | 虫 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 4 | Total Strokes | 10 |
| Mandarin reading | wén | Cantonese reading | man1 man4 |
| Japanese on reading | bun | Japanese kun reading | ka |
| Korean reading | mwun | Vietnamese reading | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 蟁 | ||
| 蚊 | |||
| mosquito; gnat | |||
| Radical | 虫 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 4 | Total Strokes | 10 |
| Mandarin reading | wén | Cantonese reading | man1 man4 |
| Japanese on reading | bun | Japanese kun reading | ka |
| Korean reading | mwun | Vietnamese reading | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 蟁 | ||
| 蚊 | [ wén ] mosquito |
| 蚊子 | [ wén zi ] mosquito |
| 蚊子再小也是肉 | [ wén zi zaì yě shì roù ] lit. even a mosquito, though tiny, provides some nourishment (idiom), fig. it's better than nothing |
| 蚊子館 | [ wén zi guǎn ] (jocularly) public building that has been lying idle (and is thus ideal for housing mosquitos) (Tw) |
| 蚊帳 | [ wén zhàng ] mosquito net, CL:頂|顶[ding3] |
| 蚊蟲 | [ wén chóng ] mosquito |
| 蚊香 | [ wén xiāng ] mosquito-repellent incense or coil |
| ⇒ 伊蚊 | [ yī wén ] Aedes, a genus of mosquito |
| ⇒ 大炮打蚊子 | [ dà paò dǎ wén zi ] cannon fire to hit a mosquito, to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut |
| ⇒ 按蚊 | [ àn wén ] anopheles, malarial mosquito |
| ⇒ 瘧蚊 | [ nvè wén ] Anopheles (type of mosquito) |
| ⇒ 白線斑蚊 | [ baí xiàn bān wén ] Aedes albopictus (species of mosquito) |
| ⇒ 避蚊胺 | [ bì wén àn ] DEET (insect repellent) |
| ⇒ 防蚊液 | [ fáng wén yè ] mosquito repellent |
| ⇒ 電蚊拍 | [ diàn wén paī ] electric mosquito swatter |
| ⇒ 飛蚊症 | [ feī wén zhèng ] eye floaters (moving spots in the eye's vitreous humor) |
| ⇒ 黑斑蚊 | [ heī bān wén ] Aedes, a genus of mosquito |