Firefly in Chinese (Mandarin): 萤火虫 (yínghuǒchóng)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 萤火虫

• 萤 / 螢

  Firefly. 虫 (bug) is at the bottom.

  11 strokes

• 火

  Fire.

  4 strokes

• 虫 / 蟲

  Bug.

  6 strokes

萤火虫 is a "glowing fire bug". Its light shines from its tail on summer nights.

More examples with 萤火虫

• 萤火虫一闪一闪。

  螢火蟲一閃一閃。

  Yínghuǒchóng yì shǎn yì shǎn.

  The fireflies blink on and off.

• 我抓到了一只萤火虫。

  我抓到了一隻螢火蟲。

  Wǒ zhuā dào le yì zhī yínghuǒchóng.

  I caught a firefly.

How to write 萤火虫 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.

In Traditional characters: