guǒ

the solitary wasp

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

果 sound component

  Sound component

guǒ

  

fruit

Evolution

蜾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蜾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蜾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

guǒ

the solitary wasp; Eumenes pomiformis

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤorʔ (*kˤorʔ.rˤorʔ, redup. infixation < *kˤorʔ ?)

kwaX

guǒ

蜾蠃 kwaX.lwaX a kind of wasp


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6691st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+873E

Shuowen

“,蠃,蒲盧,細要土蠭也。天地之性,細要純雄。《詩》曰:‘螟有字,蠃負之。’从虫,鬲聲。蜾,蜾或从果。”


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