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蝗: locust

locust; grasshopper
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Readings

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いなご・ばった

蝗 is いなご (rice-field grasshopper) or ばった; 蝗害 (こうがい) means damage from locust swarms.

Key words

蝗いなごrice grasshopper; locust
蝗害こうがいlocust plague
飛蝗ばったgrasshopper

Example sentences

In some regions, people catch grasshoppers in the rice fields in autumn and make them into tsukudani.

Old records mention many years when locust plagues led to famine.

A grasshopper sprang out of the grass and the children cheered.

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