Entry
  1. Noun

    this fleeting world; this transient life; this world

    Poetical term

  2. one's current body; one's mortal shell; one's flesh and blood; this physical body

    Poetical term

  3. cast-off cicada shell; cast-off husk

    Archaic

  4. cicada

    Archaic

Also written 虚蝉【うつせみ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum

Kun
そらあ.くあ.きあ.けるからす.くす.かすむな.しい
On
クウ
Strokes
8
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N4
Frequency
304 of 2500
Radical
cave
WaniKani
Level 5

Built from

Used in names as

うつ

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-3-5, 2-5-3SKIP code
3m5.12The Kanji Dictionary
3010.1Four corner code
772deroo
7a7aUnicode hex code
1-22-85JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3317Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4192New Nelson (John Haig)
2227New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2767Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1418Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1913Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1317Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1414Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
233A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
723Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
184Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
25415Morohashi
15A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
140Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
140Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
65sakade
77Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
66henshall3
73Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
304crowley
461Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.17busy_people
1452Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1327Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
kong1, kong4Pinyin reading
gongKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
5WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

cicada

Kun
せみ
On
センゼン
Strokes
15
Radical
insect

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (13)
CodeReference
1-6-9, 1-6-12SKIP code
6d12.3The Kanji Dictionary
5615.6Four corner code
8749Unicode hex code
1-32-70JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4190Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5349New Nelson (John Haig)
1774Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2692Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2731Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
33616Morohashi
chan2Pinyin reading
seonKorean reading