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蜢

měng

Character

What 蜢 means

1. grasshopper

Example sentences

• 我喜欢那只蚱蜢发出的声音！
  I love the sound this grasshopper makes!

Words containing 蜢

• 蚱蜢zhà měnggrasshopper
• 草蜢cǎo měnggrasshopper

Characters built on 孟

These share the phonetic component 孟 (mèng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 猛měngferocious; fierce; violent
• 锰měngmanganese (chemistry)
• 勐měngmeng (old administrative division in Dai areas of Yunnan); variant of 猛
• 艋měngused in 舴艋

Characters that look like 蜢

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 锰měngmanganese (chemistry)
• 磕kēto tap; to knock (against sth hard); (esp.) to knock…
• 蝗huánglocust
• 瞌kēused in 瞌睡
• 楂cháfell trees; raft; to hew
• 锗zhěgermanium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read měng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 猛ferocious; fierce; violent
• 懵(bound form) confused; ignorant
• 勐meng (old administrative division in Dai areas of Yunnan); variant of 猛
• 锰manganese (chemistry)
• 獴mongoose; Taiwan pr. méng
• 艋used in 舴艋
• 蠓midge
• 黾toad
• 蒙Mongol ethnic group; abbr. for Mongolia 蒙古国; Taiwan pr. Méng