虫
chónghuǐ HSK4

bug, insect

虫 蟲 chóng frequency
insect noun
lower form of animal life, including insects, larvae, worms, and similar creatures

我好像吞了一只虫。

wǒ hǎo​xiàng tūn le yī zhī chóng.

I think I just swallowed a bug.

[person type] noun
Used in a derogatory or playful way to describe a person with a particular characteristic, such as a lazy person or a bookworm.
animal
(archaic) a general term for all animals, such as tigers or snakes
Chong
(surname)
虫 huǐ
venomous snake
(literary) an ancient term for a venomous snake
radical 142
radical 142 in the system of 214 Chinese character radicals

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Classifier

Old variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,287th most common 97.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,224th most common 68.9 per million appears in 20% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
27.4 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
33.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
蟲
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+866B

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)