jiá

kind of butterfly

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

夾 sound component

  Sound component

jiājiájià

  

be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

Evolution

蛺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蛺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiá

kind of butterfly; see 蛺蝶|蛱蝶[jiá​dié]

Most common words with 蛺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

nymphalid

蛱蝶

nymphalid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5381st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+86FA

Shuowen

“蛺,蛺蜨也。从虫,夾聲。”


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