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Kanji for Firefly
The kanji for “firefly” is 蛍, read kei and written in 11 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
蛍
firefly
The firefly, whose soft lights fill summer nights.
11 strokes On reading ケイ (kei) Kun reading ほたる (hotaru) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: lightning-bug, firefly
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kei
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