螂

mantis

16 strokes.

Readings

• ロウ (on reading): 蟷螂拳 (とうろうけん) praying mantis style; 蟷螂の斧 (とうろうのおの) courageous but doomed resistance
• Read as a whole word: 蟷螂 (かまきり) praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis); 朝鮮蟷螂 (ちょうせんかまきり) narrow-winged mantis

Components

• 虫
• 郎
• ⻏ radical village, right-side form of 邑
• 艮 radical stopping; stubborn
• 虫 radical insect

Words using 螂

• 蟷螂拳 (とうろうけん) praying mantis style
• 蟷螂の斧 (とうろうのおの) courageous but doomed resistance
• 蟷螂 (かまきり) praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis)
• 朝鮮蟷螂 (ちょうせんかまきり) narrow-winged mantis

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