Kanji

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: fly

Kunyomi: はえ はい

Onyomi: ヨウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: insect

Examples

Onyomi Examples

蠅頭 ヨウトウ small characters, tiny handwriting, as small as the head of a fly, small profit

青蠅 アオバエ bluebottle fly, little pest

Kunyomi Examples

はえ fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha), person of no worth, pisher, scrub

はえ座 はえざ Musca (constellation), the Fly

護摩の灰 ごまのはい thief posing as fellow traveller (traveler)

はいちょう fly-net cupboard

ハエ取り はえとり catching flies, fly-catcher, flytrap, flypaper, jumping spider

護摩の灰 ごまのはい thief posing as fellow traveller (traveler)