dié

butterfly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

枼 sound component

  Sound component

  

leaf

Definitions

 

dié

butterfly; CL:|[zhī]

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dié

variant of [dié]

Most common words with 蝶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蝴蝶

butterfly

butterfly

蝴蝶结

bow

蝶泳

butterfly stroke (swimming)

招蜂引蝶

to flirt

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤep

dep

dié

hu-dep: butterfly


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.0205% of movies

2371st most common character in movies

2306th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8776


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