kirigirisu キリギリス

Translation

kirigirisu means "Katydid" in English.

kirigirisu is normally written with katakana, as キリギリス.
kirigirisu written with hiragana is きりぎりす.

kirigirisu written with kanji is 螽斯.
This word contains non-jouyou kanji 常用漢字.

kirigirisu may also be written as 蟋蟀.

kirigirisu is a jukujikun 熟字訓 reading for 螽斯 in this word. That is: those kanji are only read that way when they come together like that.

Scientific name: Tettigoniidae.

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