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Mythic Mandarin

虫 (chóng): meaning and stroke order

虫 (chóng) means lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures.

虫

Simplified
虫
Traditional
蟲, 虫
Pinyin
chóng

Stroke order of 虫

虫

  • chóng variant of 蟲|虫[chong2]
  • chóng lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures; CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 蟲

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 虫

  1. chóng Traditional 蟲
    • lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures
    • CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]
    • (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
  2. chóng
    • variant of 蟲|虫[chong2]

Radical and structure

虫
Radical 虫 (Kangxi radical 142) · 6 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

虫 in our stories

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  • 她发现，这些“果子”原来是一种小虫吐丝做成的茧，小虫吃的正是桑树的叶子。

    tā fāxiàn zhèxiē guǒzi yuánlái shì yì zhǒng xiǎo chóng tǔ sī zuò chéng de jiǎn xiǎo chóng chī de zhèngshì sāngshù de yèzi

    She discovered that the "fruits" were really cocoons spun from the silk of a small worm, and that the worms fed on mulberry leaves.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 虫

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).