also: くろゴキブリ
smoky brown cockroach
A common species of cockroach in Japan, Periplaneta fuliginosa. Often simply called ゴキブリ in everyday speech.
I found a smoky brown cockroach in the kitchen.
Smoky brown cockroaches are nocturnal and prefer dark places.
The most common spelling; usually written in kana.
Mixed kanji-katakana spelling; less common than the all-katakana form.
Mixed kanji-hiragana spelling; rarely used.
Kanji spelling using rare characters; almost never used in practice.
Formed from 黒 “black” and ゴキブリ “cockroach.” ゴキブリ developed from the older form ごきかぶり, literally “bowl-biter,” referring to a cockroach.