Read Edit View history 蛀 zhù insects that eat books Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 主 represents the sound. Components 虫 虫 Meaning component chóng bug, insect 主 主 Sound component zhǔ master Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangtjos Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang