Chinese Character Wiki

蜮

yù

a fabulous creature like a turtle

Components
虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

worm

或 sound component

或  Sound component

huò

  

or

Evolution

蜮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蜮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蜮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蜮  

yù

a fabulous creature like a turtle; a toad; mythical creature; toad; worm

Most common words with 蜮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鬼蜮

evil spirit

蜮

toad

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5567th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+872E

Shuowen

“蜮，短狐也。似鼈，三足，以气害人。从虫，或聲。蟈，蜮又从國。”


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