měng

grasshopper

Components

Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

insect

Sound component
mèng first in series

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmraːŋʔ

說文解字

虴蜢也。从虫孟聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica