oyster

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

厉 sound component

  Sound component

  

whetstone

Evolution

蛎 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
蛎 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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oyster

Most common words with 蛎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

牡蛎

oyster

oyster

蛎黄

the flesh of oyster

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.9130% of movies

3345th most common character in movies

4426th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+86CE


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