Chinese Character Wiki

蝤

qiú

Components
虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

酋 sound component

酋  Sound component

qiú

  

chief of tribe

Evolution

蝤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蝤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蝤  

qiú

larva; grub

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]u

dzjuw

qiú

蝤蠐 tree-grub


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7089th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8764

Shuowen

“蝤，蝤也。从虫，酋聲。”


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