螾
yǐn
the earthworm
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 寅 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Definitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ](r)ə[r]ʔ | yinX | yǐn | earthworm |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+87BE |
Shuowen | “螾，側行者。从虫，寅聲。蚓，螾或从引。” |
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