yǐn
earthworm
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 引 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ](r)ə[r]ʔ | yinX | yǐn | earth-worm (khjuw.yinX) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4102nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8693 |
Shuowen | “螾，側行者。从虫，寅聲。蚓，螾或从引。” |
Sources
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