louse eggs

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

幾 sound component

  Sound component

  

how much

Evolution

蟣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蟣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

louse eggs, nits; nymph of louse

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.[g]əj (not in GSR)

gj+j

leech


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5822nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+87E3

Shuowen

“蟣,蝨子也。一曰齊謂蛭曰蟣。从虫,幾聲。”


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