Kanji Blog Post #4
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May 11th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Although I became very familiar with the 虫 kanji as I wrote this post, I managed to make a mistake with the on-yomi in one place (a mistake that a sharp reader spotted and that I’ve since fixed). And now it occurs to me that the on-yomi CHŪ is actually simple to remember. An insect such as a moth “chews” on things and leaves holes in clothing.
May 11th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
It is hard to disagree with a dictionary but here is my personal interpretation. While Dr. Halpern says the 虫 suffix indicates a negative quality in a person, 虫, when used figuratively, means a person doing something excessively without tiring; 泣き虫 meaning a person crying too much and 弱虫 meaning a person too weak. Although doing anything too much would be a negative quality, in the cases of 本の虫 (bookworm) or 仕事の虫 (workworm? or workaholic), there is a feeling of admiration for devotion or studiousness mixed with ridicule. I don’t know how many people will agree with me.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:03 am
I don’t know a lot about bugs, but I do recall a notation in Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book in which she writes in her list of sad things, something about a basket worm who cries “Milk” all the time. (Do not go there without arming yourself with Ivan Morris’ edition, which makes everything sensible.)
July 9th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
“I don’t know a lot about bugs”: Hmm. I Googled “Ebet Dudley” to see who it is that has left such interesting messages on my blog, and I found that Ebet Dudley illustrated a book on insects, of all things! Could there be two Ebet Dudleys in the world?
April 7th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Hi Eve,
I’ve only ever heard of あぶらむし (aburamushi) as aphids, even though it is listed as cockroach in the dictionary. Aphids makes a lot of senseas “oil+insects” because that’s literally what they do…
Usually cockroaches are called ごきぶり (gokiburi.)
Your posts are so interesting!
Carolyn
April 9th, 2010 at 10:56 am
Hi, Carolyn.
Thanks for the comment! Yes, I should have said (per Breen) that “cockroach” is an obscure definition of 油虫. I love his 5th definition of it: “visitor to a red-light district who’s only there to look”!
I didn’t know anything about aphids, so thanks for the info.!
April 10th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Thank you Eve,
I’ve had a good laugh at the 5th definition!
I didn’t know that one either… but I can imagine the insect imagery.