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蚱蜢

zhàměng
noun #25,786

Measure Word

一只蚱蜢 zhī

Meanings

  1. 1 grasshopper

Examples

草地上跳着许多蚱蜢。
Cǎodì shàng tiàozhe xǔduō zhàměng.
Many grasshoppers were jumping around in the grass.
孩子们抓蚱蜢玩了一下午。
Háizimen zhuā zhàměng wán le yī xiàwǔ.
The children caught grasshoppers all afternoon.

Tips

memory
The characters 蚱蜢 both have the insect radical 虫 on the left, a reliable cue that you're dealing with a bug. The sounds zhà-měng are purely phonetic.

Stroke Order

蚱 zhà
蜢 měng