Chinese Character Wiki

螽

zhōng

katydid

Components
冬 sound component

冬  Sound component

dōng

  

winter

虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

Evolution

螽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
螽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
螽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

螽  

zhōng

katydid; (grasshopper); Gompsocleis mikado

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tuŋ

tsyuwng

zhōng

tsyuwng.sje locust


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5830th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+87BD

Shuowen

“螽，蝗也。从，夂聲。夂，古文終字。，螽或从虫，眾聲。”


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