虫

Meaning

1. n
   insect; bug; cricket; moth
2. n
   worm; roundworm
3. n
   thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious
4. n
   nervousness; fretfulness
5. n
   person devoted to one thing; single-minded person
6. n
   valve core
7. n
   mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)

Example sentences

• きつつきは、長く尖ったくちばしで、木の幹をつついて、中にいる虫を食べます。

  Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.

• 「虫とあそぶにはボクは年をとりすぎている」と男の子は言いました。

  "I'm too old to be playing with bugs," said the boy.

• 蓼食う虫も好き好き。

  There is no accounting for tastes.