Chinese Character Wiki

蝮

fù

venomous snake

Components
虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

worm

复 sound component

复  Sound component

fù

  

return

Evolution

蝮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蝮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蝮  

fù

venomous snake, viper; insect; poisonous snake (archaic)

Most common words with 蝮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蝮蛇

venomous snake

蝮

insect

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4419th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+876E

Shuowen

“蝮，虫也。从虫，复聲。”


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