"昆" meaning in Japanese

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Character

Forms: “Jōyō” kanji [common]
  1. A swarm of or an organism that swarms (e.g. bugs), an organism that forms in large groups (e.g. kombu) Tags: kanji
    Sense id: en-昆-ja-character-gPebF9e- Categories (other): Common kanji Disambiguation of Common kanji: 37 32 32
  2. elder brother Tags: kanji
    Sense id: en-昆-ja-character-lZ8Tks1L Categories (other): Common kanji Disambiguation of Common kanji: 37 32 32
  3. descendants, great-great-great-great grandchild Tags: kanji
    Sense id: en-昆-ja-character-NQqAC2nt Categories (other): Common kanji, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations Disambiguation of Common kanji: 37 32 32 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 19 12 69 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant transliterations: 13 8 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 昆虫 (konchū) (ruby: 昆虫(こんちゅう)), 昆布 (konbu) (ruby: 昆布(こんぶ)), 昆弟 (kontei) (ruby: 昆弟(こんてい)), 昆孫 (konson) (ruby: 昆孫(こんそん))

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    "Japanese kanji with kun reading なかま",
    "Japanese kanji with kun reading むれ",
    "Japanese kanji with kun readings missing okurigana designation",
    "Japanese kanji with nanori reading ひ",
    "Japanese kanji with nanori reading ひで",
    "Japanese kanji with nanori reading やす",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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