méng

horsefly

Evolution

蝱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蝱 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
蝱 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

méng

horsefly, gadfly

() 

méng

old variant of [méng]

Most common words with 蝱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

horsefly

牛虻

gadfly (Tabanus bovinus)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4580th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8771

Shuowen

“蝱,齧人飛蟲。从,亡聲。”


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