Chinese Character Wiki

蛩

qióng

cricket

Components
巩 sound component

巩  Sound component

gǒng

  

secure, bind

虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

Evolution

蛩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蛩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蛩  

qióng

cricket, locust; anxious; grasshopper; a cricket

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5009th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+86E9

Shuowen

“蛩蛩，獸也。一曰，秦謂蟬蛻曰蛩。从虫，巩聲。”


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