虽 |
although, even though
At top: mouth: 口, below: insect 虫 In the mouth an insect? Okay, although, .. |
蛋 |
egg, oval shaped
Top: correct 正 (To stop 止 at the line 一 is correct, - actually 疋 = bales of cloth), bottom: insect 虫 It is correct for insects to lay: eggs. |
风 |
wind, style, manner
Simplified from 風, which shows a sail 冂 with a sail tree 一 and an insect 虫 It blows an insect against the sail: The wind. |
触 |
to touch, sensing, to make contact with sth
Left: horn, angle 角 (image of a horn with head of an animal), right: insect 虫 The "horns" (= antennas) of insects are for touching and sensing. |
虫 |
worm or insect
Developed from the image of an insect with sting (cf. scorpion 禺) In the middle 中 of the earth (bottom stroke) are insects and worms. |
属 |
species, category, genus (taxonomy), dependents
From top: buttock seen from the side 尸, accent ノ, insect 虫 with additional long legs 冂 The rear part belongs to an insect with long legs - but which species? |
惠 |
favor, benefit, honorific
Top: 叀 (insect 虫 behind two additional lines 二 as a grid), bottom: heart 心 If a grid is in front of the insect, it is for the heart: a favor/benefit. |
独 |
alone, independent, single, sole, only
Left: wild animal 犭 (dog on the hind legs), right: insect 虫 Wild animal and insects typically stay alone. |
蛇 |
snake, serpent
Left: insect 虫, right: it (lifeless) 它 (roof 宀, sitting person 匕) The 'insect' next to the house with the sitting person is: a snake. |
强 |
strong, stubborn, vigorous
Left: bow 弓, right : although 虽 (In the mouth 口 an insect 虫? Okay, although, ..) If it can draw a bow with the mouth, this insect must be strong and stubborn. |
蜂 |
bee, wasp
Left: insect 虫 (body 口 and sting of an insect), right: pointed 夆 (sitting cross-legged 夂 on top of a growing plant 丰) This insects sits on top of a growing plant (= the blossom): the bee, wasp. |
蜜 |
honey
Top: 宓 (roof 宀, certainly 必 [The heart 心 is pierced by a lance ノ - certainly!]), bottom: insect 虫 Under the roof are certainly insects for making honey. |
虹 |
rainbow
Left: insect 虫, right: craftsman/build 工 Insects actually build the rainbow? |
蝶 |
butterfly
Left: insect 虫, right: 枼 (epoch, generation 世, tree 木) An insect that is only for one epoch in the tree is the butterfly. |
蝴 |
butterfly
Left: insect 虫, right: beard, non-Han people 胡 (Like old 古 flesh 月 are the beards of the non-Han people.) The insect that develops from an old 古 body 月 (=caterpillar & cocoon), is the butterfly. |
蛮 |
barbarian, bullying, very, rough, reckless
Top: also, namely 亦 (To see this variation 亦 as red 赤, you can also do.) [red 赤: When earth (clay) 土 is burned 灬, the pottery becomes red 赤], bottom: insect 虫 Also, I think: The reddish insects are like: babarians. |
蠢 |
blunt, stupid, to wiggle (of worms), sluggish
Top: spring (time) 春, bottom: 2x insect 虫 (Freshly hatched after winter:) In spring the insects are still blunt and stupid. |
骚 |
disturbance, rumpus, trouble, flirty, coquettish
Left: horse 马/馬, right: 蚤 (fork 叉 [=hand 又 with fork 丶], insect 虫) A horse pricked by a fork or an insect causes a coquettish disturbance. |
融 |
to melt, merge, to blend, to be in harmony
Left: 鬲 (image of a pot 口 with a lid 一 on a stand 冂), right: insect 虫 In the pot on the stand is an insect, but it is already melting/dissolving. |
蚁 |
ant
Left: insect 虫, right: justice 义 (It comes from the emphasized 丶 head of the person 人 with raised arms 乂) These insects have justice (in the colony of) the: ants. |
烛 |
candle, to illuminate
Left: fire 火, right: insect 虫 (here: bee 蜂) The fire that comes from an insect, is the (beeswax) of the candle. |
蜡 |
candle, wax
Left: insect 虫 (here: a bee 蜂), right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times) This insect (= the bee) was in former times used for the wax of the candles. |
蚀 |
erosion, to nibble, to corrode, eclipse
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover  is good 良 food), right: insect 虫 The eating/food by an insect is "eating (nibbling) into it", like: corrosion. |
蚂 |
dragonfly, grasshopper, ant, leech
Left: insect 虫, right: horse 马 (=馬 with mane, four legs 灬 und tail ㄅ) Insects that resemble a horse, are the dragonfly and the grasshopper. |
浊 |
impure, turbid, muddy
Left: water 氵, right: insect 虫 Water with insects is impure. |
螺 |
spiral shell, screw thread, spiral
Left: insect 虫, right: tired, exhausted 累 (If the fields are long 田 as threads 糸, they will exhaust us) It comes from the insect and repeats until exhaustion: the helix of the spiral shell. |
蝇 |
fly, musca
Left: insect 虫, right: toad 黾 (= The animal 口 on the field 田 with the long tongue 乚.) The insect for the toad, is the fly. |
蚕 |
silkworm
Top: sky/heaven 天, below: insect 虫 A heavenly insect is: the silkworm! |
虾 |
shrimp, prawn
Left: insect 虫, right: down(wards) 下 The 'insect' from the depth is the: shrimp. |
禹 |
Yu the Great mythical leader who tamed the floods
Top: mouth 口, bottom: 禸 or with insect 虫 Like an insect 虫 with hat 一 and wide legs 冂, that is: Yu the Great. |
蛙 |
frog
Left: insect 虫, right: piled earth 圭 (2x earth 土) The "insect" at the field's ridge (= where earth is piled) is the frog. |
蚊 |
mosquito
Left: insect 虫, right: text/language 文 The insect you can kill with a text is a mosquito. |
蜘 |
spider
Left: Insect 虫, right: to know 知 (The arrow 矢 has a target 口, which it knows.) (In respect to building a web) The insect with (special) knowledge is: the spider. |
蝉 |
cicada
Left: Insect 虫, right: single, individual 单 (It shines 丷 the sun 日 in a group of ten 十 [with nine planets] as the single one) (They never are in a group:) The insect that stays single is the cicade. |
蟹 |
crab
Top: solution 解 (A horn 角 was cut by a sword 刀 from that cow 牛: Is that a solution?), bottom: insect 虫 It has a horn (= the shell) and with it claws 刀 it can pinch a cow. This 'insect' is: the crab. |
嗤 |
laugh at, jeer, scoff at, sneer at
Left: mouth 口, right: worm, ignorant 蚩 (below 一 the mountain 山, insect 虫) The mouth (sees), that the mountain is like one insect and: laughs (about the ignorant worm) |
蝗 |
locust, grasshopper
Left: insect 虫, right: emperor 皇 (=the sun-日-rayノ-king 王) Amoung the insects is the emperor: the locust! |
闽 |
abbr. for Fujian 福建 province in the Min dynasty
Outside: gate 门/門, inside: insect 虫 An insect at the gate stands for the Fujian-province. |
蝠 |
bat
Left: insect 虫, right: barrel of rice wine 畐 The 'insect' that likes (empty) barrels is: the bat. |
蜀 |
larva, caterpillar, abbr. for Sichuan 四川
Top: net 罒 (cf. net 网), bottom: enwrap 勹 and insect 虫 It has a 'net' for enwrapping. This insect is: the larva. |
蛾 |
moth
Left: insect 虫, right: I, me 我 (In my hand 手 a halberd 戈 and I am myself.) The insect that flutters around wildly (=has an ego of its own) is the moth. |
萤 |
firefly, glow-worm
From top: plant, grass 艹, cover 冖, insect 虫 The grass covers this insect: the firefly. |
搔 |
to scratch, to disturb
Left: hand 扌, right: 蚤 (fork 叉, insect 虫) The hand that pricks like a hand 又 with a fork 丶 or like an insect, causes: a scratch. |
蛟 |
a legendary dragon controlling rain and floods
Left: insect 虫, right: exchange, crossing 交 (six 六 crosses 㐅) Like an insect he is in exchange: The flood dragon. |
龋 |
dental caries, decayed teeth
Left: Zahn 齿/齒 (Below the nose 止 an open mouth 凵 with teeth 人), right: Yu the Great 禹 (special insect 虫) In the teeth, the special insect causes caries. |
蠕 |
to wriggle, to squirm, to wiggle
Left: insect 虫, right: require, need 需 (Rain[water] 雨 on the beard 而 is needed [for care]) The insects (including worms) need (their ability) of wriggling. |
螂 |
dragonfly, mantis
Left: insect 虫, right: a youth 郎 (.. the good 良 one from the village ⻏) (It chases its victims at high speed) An insect (alive like) a youth is the: dragonfly. |
茧 |
cocoon, callus
Top: plant, grass 艹, bottom: insect 虫 At the plant (hangs) an insect in form of: a cocoon. |
蜕 |
skin cast off old skin during molting, exuvia, to pupate
Left: insect 虫, right: money transfer 兑 (Going out 丷 from my elder brother 兄 [big mouth 口 on legs 儿] money transactions take place) When the insect makes a 'payment' it is casting off the skin. |
蜒 |
slug, to wriggle/snaking
Left: insect 虫, right: spread, extend 延 (This movement 廴 is correct 正 for: spreading or extending) The insect, that has spread out is: the slug. |
蜷 |
to curl up (like a scroll), to huddle, wriggle (as a worm)
Left: insect 虫, right: to roll (up), reel 卷 (Spindle ノ on which something 二, like a crouching person 㔾, is rolled on.) The insect is 'rolled up', when it curls. |
蟒 |
python
Left: insect 虫, right: thick weeds 莽 (If a dog 犬 can hide in the grasses 艹,艹, it is thick weeds.) The 'insect' in the thick weed, that (eats) the dog is: the python. |
蜗 |
snail, see 蜗牛
Left: insect 虫, right: chat, gossip 呙 (A mouth 口 as big as the chest 内 likes gossip.) The insect with a big mouth (relativ to the body) is this snail. |
螅 |
intestinal worm
Left: insect 虫, right: breath 息 (I myself 自 and my heart 心 need a breath.) The insect that (shares with me) my breath is: the intestinal worm. |
蛤 |
clam, frog, toad
Left: Insect 虫, right: to fit 合 (The lid  on the pot 口) The insect that fits in (somewhere) is: the clam or toad. |
蟋 |
cricket
Left: insect 虫, right: know, be familiar with 悉 (To have the outstanding ノ of rice 米 in your heart 心 is the real knowledge) The insect, that is known/familiar is: the cricket. |
蟀 |
cricket
Left: insect 虫, right: ratio 率 (rotary disks 亠,十 turn threads 糸 into small parts 冫 in that ratio) The insect that has the pronounciation 'shuai4' like at 'ratio' is the: cricket. |
蛊 |
to drive to insanity, to bewitch, intestinal parasite
Top: insect 虫, below: bowl/plate 皿 The insects in my bowl drive me: to insanity. |
蝙 |
bat
Left: insect 虫, right: flat 扁 (door 戸 with a writing tablet 冊 as: "door plate") The 'insect' that flutters like a door plate (on a thread) is: the bat. |
蟆 |
toad, toad
Left: insect 虫, right: negative 莫 The sun 日 is setting between plants 艹, 艹= 大) The 'insect, that becomes active at sunset, is the toad. |
镯 |
bracelet, armband
Left: metal 钅/金, right: larva, caterpillar 蜀 (It has a 'net' 罒 for enwrapping 勹. This insect 虫 is: the larva) This metal is bent like a caterpillar: the bracelet. |
蛛 |
spider, spider web
Left: insect 虫, right: vermilion 朱 (A branch of a young [= not yet] tree 未 has sth. red ノ =apple?) Here: a net  in a tree 木 This insect makes a net in a tree: the spider. |
蜿 |
to move (as snake), wriggle
Left: insect 虫, right: "as, if", similar 宛 (When I at home 宀 in the evening 夕 slump 㔾 (e.g. on the TV-coach) it's always just similar.) The insects are similar when they: move as a snake. |
蜈 |
centipede
Left: insect 虫, right: area in Jiangsu 吴 (mouth 口 and sky 天) The insect in Jiangsu is the: centipede. |
蝎 |
scorpion
Left: insect 虫, right: interrogation 曷 (=The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner  at the interrogation.) (For torture:) An insect for an interrogation is the scorpion. |
蟾 |
moon, (striped) toad, living on the moon
Left: insect 虫, right: excellent, verbose 詹 (Who, when looking upwards 厃, is using eight 八 words 言, is verbose.) The 'insect' for which you look upwards and which talks is the toad living on the moon. |
螃 |
crab
Left: insect 虫, right: one side, beside 旁 ([The servants] are in one direction 方 (side) of the emperor 帝 [modified]: at his side.) The insect that moves laterally / sidewards, is the crab. |
蚌 |
mussel, clam, oyster, shell
Left: insect 虫, right: abundance 丰 (strongly growing plant) An 'insect', that is in abundance, is the mussel. |
蛹 |
chrysalis, pupa
Left: insect 虫, right: 甬 (bent person マ, use, need 用 [A fence 用 can be used]) This insect is bent: This is needed by the pupa. |
蛀 |
termite, to bore (of insects)
Left: insect 虫, right: master 主 (I emphasize 丶, the king 王 is the master) (They live in wood) The insect that is the master (of his home) is: the termite. |