Chinese Character Wiki

蝕

shí

nibble away

An insect 虫 bite 飠; 飠 also provides the pronunciation

Components
飠 sound,meaning component

飠  Sound Meaning component

shí

  

eat

虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

Evolution

蝕 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
蝕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蚀 (蝕) 

shí

nibble away; erode; eclipse; to nibble away at sth; to eat into; to erode

Most common words with 蝕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

腐蚀

corrosion

侵蚀

to erode

蚀

to erode

锈蚀

rust

蚀刻

to etch

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mə-lək

zyik

shí

(eat:) eclipse


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.2677% of movies

2718th most common character in movies

2625th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

蚀

Unicode

U+8755


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