蟊
máo

a fly which is used similarly to cantharides

蟊 máo
grain-eating grub
(bound form) an insect pest that eats the roots of young rice sprouts; sometimes used to refer to the Spanish fly
Spanish fly
the Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria), a type of blister beetle

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Frequency
Character
Written text
5,414th most common 0.636 per million
Movie subtitles
4,946th most common 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.958 per million

Details
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+87CA

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