蚤
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flea
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 虫 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蚤
- Common rank
- #3,411
- Unicode
- U+86A4
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 蚤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 跳蚤市场 | flea market | |
| 印鼠客蚤 | oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) | |
| 鼠蚤型斑疹伤寒 | murine typhus fever | |
| 客蚤属 | Xenopsylla (the flea genus) | |
| 骚扰客蚤 | Xenopsylla vexabilis | |
| 客蚤 | flea (Xenopsylla spp.) | |
| 跳蚤 | flea | |
| 虼蚤 | (coll.) flea |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 叉 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 叉 sound part | fork; prong; cross, intersect | |
| 衩 | shorts, panties; a slit in a robe |