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虻

méng

Character

What 虻 means

1. horsefly
2. gadfly

Other readings

虻 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• méngold variant of {虻|méng}

Words containing 虻

• 牛虻niú ménggadfly (Tabanus bovinus)

Sounds the same

Read méng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 盟oath; pledge; union
• 蒙(literary) sincere; honest; genuine
• 萌(bound form) to sprout; to bud; (colloquial) cute; adorable…
• 氓(literary) common people
• 朦used in 朦胧
• 檬used in 柠檬
• 幪used in 帡幪
• 礞(mineral)
• 曚twilight before dawn
• 瞢eyesight obscured; to feel ashamed
• 甍rafters supporting tiles; ridge of a roof
• 艨used in 艨冲

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read méng correctly.
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