ちょう
Meanings
Noun
1. butterfly
Kanji used
butterfly
Pitch accent
ちょ
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Used in vocabulary (31 in total)
hinge; joint (esp. an anatomical joint)
hinge; joint (esp. an anatomical joint)
bringing up (one's daughter) like a princess
hostess (at a bar, cabaret, etc.)
papilionaceous; butterfly-shaped
swallowtail butterfly (esp. the citrus swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus)
hinge; joint (esp. an anatomical joint)
any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)
papilionaceous; butterfly-shaped
papilionaceous; butterfly-shaped
large grass yellow (species of butterfly, Eurema hecabe); common grass yellow; yellow butterfly
flight path of a butterfly
hinge; joint (esp. an anatomical joint)
cat's whiskers (Cleome gynandra)
spider flower (Cleome hassleriana)
gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae spp.)
raccoon butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunula); moon butterflyfish
satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas); grayling
peacock butterfly (Inachis io); European peacock
skipper butterfly
eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)
sunset morpho (butterfly, Morpho hecuba)
Ponerorchis graminifolia (Orchis graminifolia)
butterfly pea (Clitoria ternatea); Asian pigeonwings
small butterfly
Examples (13 in total)
The life span of a butterfly is short.
The lifetime of a butterfly is three days.
Is it a butterfly or a moth?