殺人スズメバチ
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 殺 | 人 |
| さつ Grade: 5 |
じん Grade: 1 |
| kan’on | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 殺人スズメバチ (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
殺人 (“murder”) + スズメバチ (“hornet”). From being a hornet; and its propensity of killing off colonies of honeybees and its ability to kill people, dozens of people a year in Japan.
Noun[edit]
殺人スズメバチ • (satsujin suzumebachi)
- (informal) Japanese giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia japonica)
- (informal, by extension) Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia)
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Descendants[edit]
- English: murder hornet
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 殺 read as さつ
- Japanese terms spelled with 人 read as じん
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters
- Japanese informal terms