(phonetics) sonority

to be heard / sound, be taken as (give someone a certain impression from hearing) / to be widely known; to be famous / to be audible

Extended shinjitai form of 蟬: cicada

generic name for a cicada (any of several insects of the order Hemiptera); locust (chiefly US)

Synonym of セミ (“cicada”) above

summer (season)

voice; chirping, singing; sound; voiced sound /

summer / Xia dynasty

a female given name / a surname

(Buddhism) summer according to the lunisolar calendar; the ninety days starting from the sixteenth day of the fourth month until the fifteenth day of the seventh month