clam

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

合 sound component

  Sound component

  

to join

Evolution

蛤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蛤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

clam; frog; toad

Most common words with 蛤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

frog

蛤蟆

frog

蛤蜊

clam

癞蛤蟆

toad

文蛤

clam

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6819% of movies

2860th most common character in movies

3732nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+86E4

Shuowen

“,蜃屬。有三,皆生於海。千歲化為,秦謂之牡厲。又云,百歲燕所化。魁,一名復累,老服翼所化。从虫,合聲。”


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