Chinese Character Wiki

蜈

wú

centipede

Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 吴 represents the sound.

Components
虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

吴 sound component

吴  Sound component

wú

  

one of warring states

Definitions

蜈  

wú

centipede

Most common words with 蜈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蜈蚣

centipede

蜈

centipede

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3918th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8708


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