Illustration: Beside a shallow irrigation channel bordering Japanese rice fields, a child holds out one finger and remains perfectly still. A dragonfly has landed on the fingertip, its long segmented abdomen extending straight behind its body and both pairs of delicate wings spread sideways.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

トンボ

tonbo

dragonfly

Example sentences

  1. 天井てんじょうにトンボが止とまっている。

    There is a dragonfly on the ceiling.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. クモはそこで、チョウとかトンボといった小ちいさな昆虫こんちゅうが罠わなにかかるのを待まつ。

    There the spider waits for small insects like butterflies and dragonflies to be trapped.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. この頃ころには羽根はねを蜻蛉とんぼに見立みたて、蚊かに刺さされないようにとの願ねがいが込こめられていたことが文献ぶんけんに記述きじゅつされている。

    Documents from around that time say the shuttlecock was likened to a dragonfly and carried a wish to avoid mosquito bites.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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