Read Edit View history 蜇 zhēzhé jellyfish Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 折 represents the sound. Components 虫 虫 Meaning component chóng bug, insect 折 折 Sound component zhé, zhē, shé break off Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangʔl'ed Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang