虫
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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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 虫 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 虫
- Common rank
- #415
- Unicode
- U+866B
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
insect · Heisig RSH #509
— as a component also called: insect
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 虫
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大虫 | tiger | |
| 虫子 | insect; bug; worm; CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] | |
| 生虫 | (of food, books etc) to become infested with bugs | |
| 阿米巴原虫 | amoeba; ameba | |
| 虫儿 | see 蟲子|虫子[chong2 zi5] | |
| 面包虫 | mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) | |
| 长虫 | (coll.) snake | |
| 长虫 | (of food, books etc) to become infested with bugs | |
| 打虫 | to swat an insect; to get rid of intestinal parasite with drugs | |
| 成虫 | imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development) | |
| 眼虫 | Euglena (genus of single-celled plant) | |
| 虫眼 | hole or bite mark in a plant made by an insect | |
| 病虫 | plant diseases and insect pests | |
| 线虫 | nematode | |
| 步行虫 | ground beetle | |
| 鸟虫书 | bird writing, a calligraphic style based on seal script 篆書|篆书[zhuan4 shu1], but with chara… | |
| 书虫 | bookworm | |
| 变形虫 | amoeba; (fig.) sb or sth that is highly adaptable or changeable | |
| 鱼虫 | water flea (small crustacean of genus Daphnia) | |
| 三叶虫 | (paleontology) trilobite |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 中 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中 sound part | central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Chinese | |
| 种 | race, kind, breed; seed; to plant | |
| 冲 | wash, rinse, flush; dash; soar | |
| 钟 | clock; bell | |
| 忠 | loyalty, devotion, fidelity | |
| 肿 | swelling; swollen; to swell | |
| 盅 | small cup or bowl | |
| 忡 | sad, grieving; distressed, uneasy |