chī

a dragon whose horns have not grown

Components

Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

worm

Sound component
leave

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttrhjer̥ aj (E dialect: *r̥ - > trh-)demon
Zhengzhangr̥ʰel
Unicodetjiɛ

說文解字

若龍而黃,北方謂之地螻。从虫离聲。或云無角曰螭。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica