grubs in wood

Evolution

螙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
螙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
螙 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Definitions

 

grubs in wood, worms in books, clothes, etc. used figuratively of corrupt officials; variant of [dù]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8799

Shuowen

“蠹,木中蟲,从,橐聲。螙,蠹或从木,象蟲在水中形,譚長說。”


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