What 蟲 means
It means “insect” in Traditional Chinese.
The character repeats 虫 three times as a collective form. An ancestor of 虫 appears as a snake drawing on oracle bones—animal bones and turtle shells used in divination—around 1200 BCE. Older Chinese could call a tiger 大蟲 (“large insect”) and a snake 長蟲 (“long insect”).
Traditional Chinese form; historical-looking in everyday Japanese.
For ordinary Japanese insect writing, use 虫; 蟲 can look archaic.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsThe usual character for insects.
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How to type or find 蟲
- Search it as
- 蟲 meaning · 蟲 vs 虫 · chong · chong2 · mushi
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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蟲CSS
\87F2Traditional Chinese input
Enter its phonetic Bopomofo spelling ㄔㄨㄥˊ, or search by shape, handwriting, or the 虫 radical; select 蟲 from candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蟲
HTML hex
蟲
CSS content
content: "\87F2";
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URL encoded
%E8%9F%B2
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
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