yíng
flies
Insects 虫 that toads 黽 feed on
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 蠅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
housefly | ||
fly | ||
fruit fly | ||
flyswatter | ||
fig. no smoke without a fire |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-rəŋ | ying | yíng | fly (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.1647% of movies
2518th most common character in movies
2722nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8805 |
Shuowen | “蠅，營營青蠅，蟲之大腹者。从黽，从虫。” |
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