huí

the common intestinal worms

Evolution

蛕 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
蛕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

huí

the common intestinal worms, the tape-worm

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huí

old variant of [huí]

Most common words with 蛕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蛔虫

roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), a human parasite

roundworm

蛔虫病

ascariasis

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4032nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+86D5

Shuowen

“蛕,腹中長蟲也。从虫,有聲。”


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