qiú

Components

Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

insect

Sound component
qiú chief of tribe

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzjuw[dz]u蝤蠐 tree-grub
Zhengzhangsklu
sɡlu

說文解字

蝤𧓉也。从虫酋聲。

Sources

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