Chinese Character Wiki

螙

dù

grubs in wood

Evolution

螙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
螙 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Definitions

螙  

dù

grubs in wood, worms in books, clothes, etc. used figuratively of corrupt officials; variant of 蠹[dù]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8799

Shuowen

“蠹，木中蟲，从，橐聲。螙，蠹或从木，象蟲在水中形，譚長說。”


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