body / physique, constitution, frame / health

eclipse; erosion, corrosion

虫除け: insect repellant

苧: (plant) ramie, Boehmeria nivea var. nipononivea / 苧: cloth made from the ramie plant

泣き虫: crybaby / 鳴き虫: insects with musical sounds

真田虫, 絛虫, 条虫: a tapeworm

(dentistry) caries

The hiragana syllable む (mu). Its equivalent in katakana is ム (mu). It is the thirty-third syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ま行う段 (ma-gyō u-dan, “row ma, section u”).

Used to indicate a mumbling sound.

(Classical Japanese, after mizenkei) Used to form the volitional form of verbs, equivalent to modern う (-u > -ō) / よう (-yō).