Chinese Character Wiki

螭

chī

a dragon whose horns have not grown

Components
虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

worm

离 sound component

离  Sound component

chī, lí

  

leave

Evolution

螭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
螭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

螭  

chī

a dragon whose horns have not grown; cruel; dragon with horns not yet grown (in myth or heraldry); variant of 魑[chī]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*r̥aj (E dialect: *r̥- > trh-)

trhje

chī

demon


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5509th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+87AD

Shuowen

“螭，若龍而黃，北方謂之地螻。从虫，离聲。或云無角曰螭。”


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