oyster

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

厲 sound component

  Sound component

  

whetstone

Definitions

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oyster

Most common words with 蠣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

牡蛎

oyster

oyster

蛎黄

the flesh of oyster

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mə-rat-s

ljejH

stinging insect


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.9130% of movies

3345th most common character in movies

4426th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+8823


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