蛄
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see 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lou2 gu1]
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How 蛄 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
虫 (semantic, “insect”) + 古 (phonetic, gǔ)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 古
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 古 (gǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound component | gǔ | old, classic, ancient |
| 苦 | kǔ | bitter; hardship, suffering |
| 胡 | hú | recklessly, foolishly; wildly |
| 居 | jū | to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit |
| 故 | gù | reason, cause; happening, instance |
| 固 | gù | to solidify; strength |
| 估 | gū | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume |
| 咕 | gū | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble |
| 鸪 | gū | species of Taiwan pigeon |
| 沽 | gū | to buy and sell; of inferior quality |
| 辜 | gū | crime, offense, sin |
| 祜 | hù | blessings, happiness, prosperity |
| 怙 | hù | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) |
| 钴 | gǔ | cobalt; clothes-iron |
| 罟 | gǔ | net, snare; to implicate |
| 诂 | gǔ | explanation; to comment, to explain |
| 骷 | kū | skeleton |
| 嘏 | gǔ | felicity, prosperity; large and strong |
| 轱 | gū | wheel; to revolve, to turn |
Words containing 蛄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉拉蛄 | là là gǔ | variant of 蝲蝲蛄[la4 la4 gu3] |
| 蟪蛄不知春秋 | huì gū bù zhī chūn qiū | "the short-lived cicada knows nothing of spring or autumn" (from the Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang… |
| 虾蛄 | xiā gū | mantis shrimp |
| 蝼蛄科 | lóu gū kē | Gryllolaptaptidae family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera; mole crickets |
| 蝼蛄 | lóu gū | mole cricket; Gryllolaptaptidae, family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera (a seriou… |
| 蝲蛄 | là gǔ | crayfish |
| 蟪蛄 | huì gū | Platypleura kaempferi, a kind of cicada |
| 蝲蝲蛄 | là là gǔ | mole cricket |