虱
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louse
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 虫 +2
- Structure
- Upper-right enclosure 右上包
- Traditional
- 虱
- Common rank
- #2,810
- Unicode
- U+8671
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Formation & memory
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Words with 虱
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 虱子多了不痒，债多了不愁 | (lit.) when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore, and when up to one's … | |
| 虱目鱼 | milkfish (Chanos chanos) | |
| 虱目鱼 | variant of 虱目魚|虱目鱼[shi1 mu4 yu2] | |
| 虱多不痒 | (lit.) when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore (idiom); (fig.) to be … | |
| 虱子 | louse (Pediculus humanus) | |
| 头虱 | head lice | |
| 体虱 | body louse | |
| 木虱 | woodlouse | |
| 阴虱 | crab louse; pubic louse | |
| 壁虱 | tick; bedbug | |
| 床虱 | bedbug | |
| 塘虱 | catfish (family Clariidae) | |
| 扁虱 | tick (zoology) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 乙 — compare how they read.