蠆
chài
a kind of scorpion
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə-r̥ˤa[t]-s | trhaejH | chài | scorpion |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5554th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8806 |
Shuowen | “，毒蟲也。象形。蠆或从。” |
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