Entry
  1. Noun

    horsefly; gadfly

    Usually written using kana alone

    見たこともないような数の虻が、私にまとわりついてきたのです。
    More horseflies than I'd ever seen came and flew around me.

Also written 蝱【あぶ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

gadfly, horsefly

Kun
あぶ
On
ボウ
Strokes
9
Radical
insect

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Dictionary and index codes (11)
CodeReference
1-6-3SKIP code
6d3.2The Kanji Dictionary
5011.0Four corner code
867bUnicode hex code
1-16-26JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4117Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5277New Nelson (John Haig)
1134Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
32835Morohashi
meng2Pinyin reading
maengKorean reading