The kanji 昆: meaning, readings and stroke order

昆

Meaning: insect
On reading: コン kon
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 8
Radical: 日 sun, day
Level: Level 9 · senior high school

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: côn trùng (côn)
Japanese: こんちゅうのこん。むしのなかま。
Korean: 곤충 (곤)
Chinese: 昆虫

Readings, words and example sentences

コン kon · on reading

昆こん虫ちゅう
insect
夏に 昆こん虫ちゅうを集めます。
I collect insects in summer.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.