yán

millipede

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

延 sound component

  Sound component

yán

  

delay

Definitions

 

yán

millipede; slug

Most common words with 蜒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蜿蜒

to wriggle

slug

蚰蜒

earwig

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3655th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8712


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