蛀
zhù

insects that eat books

蛀 zhù
to bore through nounverb
To eat or bore into something, specifically of insects eating wood, books, or clothing.
termite
(bound form) A wood-boring insect or termite, such as a 蛀虫 zhù​chóng.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,984th most common 3.04 per million
Movie subtitles
3,663rd most common 1.11 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.04 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.11 per million

Details
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+86C0

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