wood-boring insect

Components

Sound component
tuàn, shǐ a hog
Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

insect

Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

insect

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangreːlʔ
rel
roːl
Unicodelěi

說文解字

蟲齧木中也。从䖵彖聲。

Sources

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