kind of bat

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

畐 sound component

  Sound component

  

to fill

Evolution

蝠 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
蝠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蝠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

kind of bat; bat

Most common words with 蝠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蝙蝠

bat

bat

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.3477% of movies

2430th most common character in movies

3335th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8760

Shuowen

“蝠,蝙蝠。服翼也。从虫,畐聲。”


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