Read Edit View history Discussion 蛊 gǔ poison Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Simplified form of 蠱. Depicts a poisonous insect (虫) placed in a container (皿). Alludes to the practice of cultivating poisonous insects inside a container by letting all of the insects devour each other until one poisonous insect remains to use as poison. Pinyin Separate values with commas gǔ ×yě × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas 蠱 × Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Used here to depict a poisonous insect. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 蛊 Simp strokes 蛊 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 蛊 Simp strokes 蛊 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 蛊 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 274, 657 ], [ 306, 634 ], [ 351, 474 ] ], [ [ 338, 650 ], [ 350, 642 ], [ 408, 648 ], [ 638, 692 ], [ 674, 693 ], [ 693, 684 ], [ 714, 659 ], [ 683, 597 ], [ 653, 577 ] ], [ [ 367, 500 ], [ 377, 512 ], [ 398, 517 ], [ 642, 552 ], [ 691, 553 ], [ 714, 544 ] ], [ [ 463, 801 ], [ 507, 760 ], [ 502, 439 ], [ 486, 417 ] ], [ [ 249, 375 ], [ 301, 350 ], [ 625, 418 ], [ 654, 423 ], [ 669, 419 ] ], [ [ 638, 491 ], [ 690, 444 ], [ 727, 399 ], [ 741, 365 ], [ 741, 339 ] ], [ [ 234, 254 ], [ 260, 233 ], [ 277, 198 ], [ 299, 92 ], [ 305, 72 ], [ 318, 58 ] ], [ [ 288, 252 ], [ 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