snail

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

mollusk

俞 sound component

  Sound component

shù

  

surname

Evolution

蝓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蝓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

snail

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.lo

zyu

snail


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6412th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8753

Shuowen

“蝓,虒蝓也。从虫,俞聲。”


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