蟷
mantis
19 strokes.
Readings
- トウ (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
- 當
- 冖 radical cover
- 口 radical mouth
- ⺌ radical small, top form of 小
- 田 radical rice field
- 虫 radical insect