蚊か

か

Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

mosquito

Common insect; often appears in compounds like 蚊帳 (かや, mosquito net) or 蚊取り線香 (かとりせんこう, mosquito coil).

〈人ひと〉が蚊かに刺さされるto get bitten by a mosquito
腕うでを蚊かに刺さされてかゆい。
My arm itches because a mosquito bit me.
蚊かを叩たたくto swat a mosquito
耳みみ元もとで蚊かの音おとがしたので叩たたいた。
I heard a mosquito buzzing near my ear, so I swatted it.
蚊かが飛とんでいるmosquitoes are flying around
夏なつの夜よるは蚊かがたくさん飛とんでいる。
On summer nights, lots of mosquitoes are flying around.

ハエN1
蚊 sucks blood and causes itchy bites, while ハエ (a fly) doesn't bite but is a pest around food and waste, so learners often group them together as annoying insects.
ブユ
蚊 has a slender body and long legs, while ブヨ (a black fly/gnat) is smaller and stouter but also bites and causes itching, so the two are easily confused as biting insects.
虻あぶ
虻 (a horsefly) is a large biting fly that troubles livestock, while 蚊 (a mosquito) is much smaller and the more common household pest.

匹ひきN3
counter for small animals · counter for rolls of cloth · archaic counter for horses · roll of cloth

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蚊かUsage51%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency in news and general use.
カUsage48%
kana-only spelling
Katakana spelling occasionally used for emphasis or in scientific contexts.
かUsage1%
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially in children's materials or when the kanji is not needed.

Native Japanese word. The kanji 蚊 is a phono-semantic compound: 虫 (insect) + 文 (sound component).