Illustration: On the floor beside a Japanese kitchen refrigerator, a cockroach emerges from beneath the appliance toward a fallen rice cracker crumb. Its flattened oval body, overlapping wing covers, six spiny legs, and very long antennae are clearly visible.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ゴキブリ

gokiburi

cockroach

Example sentences

  1. ゴキブリは昆虫こんちゅうです。

    Cockroaches are insects.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ゴキブリが苦手にがてなの。

    I’m afraid of cockroaches.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 会議室かいぎしつで死しんだゴキブリを見みつけた。

    I have found a dead cockroach in the meeting room.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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