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蜒
yán

millipede

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 延 represents the sound.

Components

虫
虫 Meaning component
chóng bug, insect
延
延 Sound component
yán delay

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhanglan
Unicodedhěn

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
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