luǒ

the solitary wasp

A wasp  building a nest in dead  flesh ⺼

Components
吂 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

Evolution

蠃 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
蠃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蠃 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
蠃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

luǒ

the solitary wasp; solitary wasp

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*rˤorʔ (*kˤorʔ.rˤorʔ, redup. infixation < *kˤorʔ ?)

lwaX

luǒ

蜾蠃 kwaX.lwaX a kind of wasp


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6866th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Unicode

U+8803

Shuowen

“蠃,蜾蠃也。从虫,聲。一曰虒蝓。”


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