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May 20, 2007

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Filed under: Cicada Arts | Japan | Pop Culture — Dan @ 9:43 am

In Japan cicadas are called Semi, a.k.a. è‰.

Semi

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Dan says:

May 25, 2007 at 4:33 am

For the symbol or cicada. Cicada I know is spoken as Semi. The symbol might be wrong — I got it from Google translations.

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Simon Liu says:

May 25, 2007 at 1:50 am

Oh..I just searched dictionary again.. The japanese translation should be “Higurashi”.

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Simon Liu says:

May 25, 2007 at 1:26 am

This is in fact a chinese charactor, called “Chan”.

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Dan says:

May 21, 2007 at 8:20 pm

I believe Semi means little bear — if your think about it, the nymphs do look like bears.

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Tim McNary says:

May 21, 2007 at 6:49 pm

Thanks for the translation of “Semi” M. Kato uses the word as part of a title for his Japanese literature on cicadas, but I didn’t know the word actually meant cicada in Japanese.

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