snail

Components

Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

mollusk

Sound component
yú, shù surname

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartzyuCə.losnail
Zhengzhanglo

說文解字

虒蝓也。从虫俞聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica