| 蝇 | |||
| flies | |||
| Radical | 虫 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 8 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | yíng | Cantonese reading | jing4 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 蠅 | flies | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 蠅 | ||
| 蝇 | |||
| flies | |||
| Radical | 虫 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 8 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | yíng | Cantonese reading | jing4 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 蠅 | flies | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 蠅 | ||
| 蝇 | [ yíng ] fly, musca, CL:隻|只[zhi1] |
| 蝇子 | [ yíng zi ] housefly |
| 蝇虎 | [ yíng hǔ ] jumping spider (family Salticidae) |
| ⇒ 如蝇逐臭 | [ rú yíng zhú choù ] like flies pursuing a stink (idiom); the mob chases the rich and powerful, the crowd runs after trash |
| ⇒ 家蝇 | [ jiā yíng ] house fly |
| ⇒ 捕蝇草 | [ bǔ yíng caǒ ] Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) |
| ⇒ 果蝇 | [ guǒ yíng ] fruit fly |
| ⇒ 毒蝇伞 | [ dú yíng sǎn ] fly Amanita or fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) |
| ⇒ 没头苍蝇 | [ meí toú cāng ying ] see 無頭蒼蠅|无头苍蝇[wu2 tou2 cang1 ying5] |
| ⇒ 无头苍蝇 | [ wú toú cāng ying ] headless fly (a metaphor for sb who is rushing around frantically) |
| ⇒ 苍蝇 | [ cāng ying ] housefly, CL:隻|只[zhi1] |
| ⇒ 苍蝇不叮无缝蛋 | [ cāng ying bù dīng wú fèng dàn ] lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom), fig. no smoke without a fire |
| ⇒ 苍蝇座 | [ cāng ying zuò ] Musca (constellation) |
| ⇒ 苍蝇拍 | [ cāng ying paī ] flyswatter |
| ⇒ 苍蝇老虎 | [ cāng ying laǒ hǔ ] (coll.) jumping spider |