Chinese Character Wiki

蚖

yuán

Components
虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

worm

元 sound component

元  Sound component

yuán

  

first

Evolution

蚖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蚖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蚖  

yuán

Protura (soil dwelling primitive hexapod); variant of 螈, salamander; newt; triton

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8413th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8696

Shuowen

“蚖，榮蚖，蛇醫。以注鳴者。从虫，元聲。”


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