Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- líng
English
- dragonfly, Libellulidae
- sandfly
- lacewing
Words containing 蛉
- 螟蛉ming4 ling4
green rice caterpillar or similar insect larva
- 蜻蛉目cing1 ling4 muk6
Odonata, order consisting of about 6,000 species of dragonflies and damselflies
- 蜻蛉cing1 ling4
damselfly
- 白蛉熱baak6 ling4 jit6
sandfly fever
- 螟蛉子ming4 ling4 zi2
adopted son
- 草蜻蛉cou2 cing1 ling4
green lacewing
- 劍走蜻蛉gim3 zau2 cing1 ling4
the sword moves like a dragon-fly (modern idiom)