蝉

Meaning

蝉 refers to the cicada, a loud summer insect. The meaning is specific and does not branch into abstract extensions.

• 蝉せみ
  N1

  cicada; locust

• 空蝉うつせみ

  one's present existence; this mortal frame; this world; this life; temporal things

• 油蝉あぶらぜみ

  large brown cicada (Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata); aburazemi

• ミンミン蝉みんみんぜみ

  robust cicada (Oncotympana maculaticollis); mingming cicada

• 蝉時雨せみしぐれ

  outburst of cicadas singing; chorus of cicadas

• にいにい蝉にいにいぜみ

  Kaempfer cicada (Platypleura kaempferi)

• 初蝉はつぜみ

  first sound of cicadas of the year

• 唖蝉おしぜみ

  voiceless cicada (female); Asian cicada

• 夏蝉なつぜみ

  summer cicadas

• 夕蝉ゆうぜみ

  cicada singing at dusk

• 姫春蝉ひめはるぜみ

  Euterpnosia chibensis (species of cicada)

• 姫蝉海老ひめせみえび

  slipper lobster of genus Scyllarus (esp. species Scyllarus cultrifer)

• 寒蝉かんぜみ

  cicadas which sing in late autumn

• 春蝉はるぜみ

  spring cicada (Terpnosia vacua)

• 松蝉まつぜみ

  cicada abundant in late spring

• 法師蝉ほうしぜみ

  Meimuna opalifera (species of cicada)

• 熊蝉くまぜみ

  Cryptotympana facialis (species of cicada)

• 秋の蝉あきのせみ

  cicadas that sing when autumn comes

• 秋蝉あきぜみ

  cicadas that sing when autumn comes

• 笑い川蝉わらいかわせみ

  laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

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