蛄
2 readings · tap one to hear it
see 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lou2 gu1]
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 虫 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 蛄
- Common rank
- #3,322
- Unicode
- U+86C4
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 蛄
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉拉蛄 | variant of 蝲蝲蛄[la4 la4 gu3] | |
| 蟪蛄不知春秋 | "the short-lived cicada knows nothing of spring or autumn" (from the Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang… | |
| 虾蛄 | mantis shrimp | |
| 蝼蛄科 | Gryllolaptaptidae family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera; mole crickets | |
| 蝼蛄 | mole cricket; Gryllolaptaptidae, family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera (a seriou… | |
| 蝲蛄 | crayfish | |
| 蟪蛄 | Platypleura kaempferi, a kind of cicada | |
| 蝲蝲蛄 | mole cricket |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 古 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound part | old, classic, ancient | |
| 苦 | bitter; hardship, suffering | |
| 胡 | recklessly, foolishly; wildly | |
| 居 | to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit | |
| 故 | reason, cause; happening, instance | |
| 固 | to solidify; strength | |
| 估 | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume | |
| 咕 | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble | |
| 鸪 | species of Taiwan pigeon | |
| 沽 | to buy and sell; of inferior quality | |
| 辜 | crime, offense, sin | |
| 祜 | blessings, happiness, prosperity | |
| 怙 | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) | |
| 钴 | cobalt; clothes-iron | |
| 罟 | net, snare; to implicate | |
| 诂 | explanation; to comment, to explain | |
| 骷 | skeleton | |
| 嘏 | felicity, prosperity; large and strong | |
| 轱 | wheel; to revolve, to turn |