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蟬: cicada

cicada
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Readings

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Kun
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Variant of 蝉. Learn the kun-reading せみ; the on-reading セン is rare.

Key words

蟬せみcicada
夕蟬ゆうぜみcicada singing at dusk
蝦夷蟬えぞぜみYezo cicada

Example sentences

Every July, cicadas start singing outside the window.

On the mountain path I heard the powerful call of a Yezo cicada.

I was cooling off on the veranda, listening to the dusk cicadas.

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