虫むし
Meanings
Noun
1. insect; bug; cricket; moth
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)
Kanji used
insect
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (260 in total)
crybaby; blubberer
hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar
worm; insect; insignificant person; pathetic person
Examples (19 in total)
Are you afraid of bugs?
Insects are everywhere.
There are insects everywhere.