| Kanji | Hiragana | Katakana |
|---|---|---|
| 蝉 | せみ | セミ |
Pronunciation: semi
How to Say It Outloud: seh-mee
Usage: Commonly used to refer to the insect known as cicada.
Example Sentence Japanese:
公園でたくさんの蝉が鳴いています。
公園でたくさんの蝉が鳴いています。Example Sentence English:Many cicadas are singing in the park.
Many cicadas are singing in the park.Dictionary
蝉せみCommon word
Noun- cicada; locust
- small-sized pulley
- Cicada
空蝉うつせみ
Noun- one's present existence; this mortal frame; this world; this life; temporal things
- cast-off cicada shell; cicada
みんみん蝉みんみんぜみ
Noun- robust cicada (Oncotympana maculaticollis); mingming cicada
唖蝉おしぜみ
Noun- voiceless cicada (female); Asian cicada
油蝉あぶらぜみ
Noun- large brown cicada (Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata); aburazemi
- Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata
夕蝉ゆうぜみ
Noun- cicada singing at dusk
蝉声せんせい
Noun- cicada singing
松蝉まつぜみ
Noun- cicada abundant in late spring
にいにい蝉にいにいぜみ
Noun- Kaempfer cicada (Platypleura kaempferi)
春蝉はるぜみ
Noun- spring cicada (Terpnosia vacua)
蜩ひぐらし
Noun- evening cicada (Tanna japonensis)
- Tanna japonensis
鳴く蝉よりも鳴かぬ蛍が身を焦がすなくせみよりもなかぬほたるがみをこがす
Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)Godan verb with 'su' ending
- empty vessels make the most noise; the silent firefly burns with more passion than the crying cicada
じいじいじいじい
Adverb (fukushi)- sizzle (sound of meat cooking)
- shrill droning of a cicada
夏蝉なつぜみ
Noun- summer cicadas
初蝉はつぜみ
Noun- first sound of cicadas of the year
蝉時雨せみしぐれ
Noun- outburst of cicadas singing; chorus of cicadas
秋蝉あきぜみ
Noun- cicadas that sing when autumn comes
秋の蝉あきのせみ
Noun- cicadas that sing when autumn comes
- cicadas that sing even in autumn
寒蝉かんぜみ
Noun- cicadas which sing in late autumn
みんみんみんみん
Adverb (fukushi)Adverb taking the 'to' particle
- sound of the cicadas
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