蛾
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(bound form) moth
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 虫 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 蛾
- Common rank
- #2,748
- Unicode
- U+86FE
Formation & memory
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Words with 蛾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 所多玛与蛾摩拉 | Sodom and Gomorrah | |
| 飞蛾投火 | see 飛蛾撲火|飞蛾扑火[fei1 e2 pu1 huo3] | |
| 蛾摩拉 | Gomorrah | |
| 飞蛾扑火 | the moth flies into the flame; fatal attraction | |
| 蛾子 | moth | |
| 妖蛾子 | variant of 么蛾子|幺蛾子[yao1 e2 zi5] | |
| 飞蛾 | moth | |
| 蛾类 | moth (family) | |
| 灯蛾 | moth | |
| 蛾眉 | (fig.) beautiful woman | |
| 木蠹蛾 | wood moth; carpenter moth; CL:隻|只[zhi1] | |
| 蛾眉皓齿 | beautiful eyebrow and white teeth (idiom); lovely young woman | |
| 苹果蠹蛾 | codling moth (Cydia pomonella) | |
| 蚕蛾 | Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori) | |
| 尺蠖蛾 | moth in family Geometridae |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 我 — compare how they read.