Chinese Character Wiki
蠢

chǔn

wriggle

Phonosemantic compound. 春 represents the sound and 䖵 represents the meaning.

Components
春 sound component

春  Sound component

chūn

  

spring

䖵 meaning component

䖵  Meaning component

kūn

  

insects

Evolution

蠢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蠢 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蠢 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蠢  

chǔn

wriggle; stupid; silly; fat; sluggish; clumsy; to wiggle (of worms); to move in a disorderly fashion

蠢 (惷) 

chǔn

variant of 蠢[chǔn]

Most common words with 蠢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蠢

stupid

愚蠢

silly

蠢货

blockhead

蠢蠢欲动

to get restless

蠢事

folly

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 47.7815% of movies

874th most common character in movies

2195th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Unicode

U+8822

Shuowen

“蠢，蟲動也。从，春聲。古文蠢从。《周書》曰：‘我有于西。’”


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