wood-boring insect

Components
彖 sound component

  Sound component

tuàn

  

a hog

虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

Evolution

蠡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蠡 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
蠡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wood-boring insect; bore into wood; calabash

Most common words with 蠡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

calabash

范蠡

Fan Li (536-488 BC), politician of Yue state, businessman and economist

蠡县

Li county in Baoding 保定[Bǎo​dìng], Hebei

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4245th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Unicode

U+8821

Shuowen

“蠡,蟲齧木中也。从,聲。,古文。”


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