虫 (蟲) chóng

1. chóng noun an invertebrate; a worm; an insect
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Zoology
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '蟲'; Guoyu '蟲' n 1; Kroll 2015 '蟲' 1, p. 54; Unihan '蟲')
2. chóng noun Kangxi radical 142
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Worm (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
3. chóng noun an insect plague
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Zoology , Concept: Insect 昆虫
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '蟲' 1a, p. 54)
4. chóng noun creature
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '蟲' n 2; Kroll 2015 '蟲' 2, p. 54)
5. chóng proper noun Chong
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '蟲' n 4)

Contained in

• 爬虫(爬蟲) reptile
• 稚虫(稚蟲) naiad; larva; developmental stage of insect
• 萤火虫(螢火蟲) firefly; glowworm; lightning bug
• 虫牙(蟲牙) caries; rotten tooth
• 虫蜡(蟲蠟) white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
• 雕虫小技(雕蟲小技) insignificant talent; a minor accomplishment
• 臭虫(臭蟲) bedbug ; tick
• 千足虫(千足蟲) millipede
• 雕虫(雕蟲) to carve out phrases from texts like a worm
• 雕虫篆刻(雕蟲篆刻) literary trifles; minor skill
• 食虫植物(食蟲植物) insectivorous plant
• 三叶虫(三葉蟲) trilobite
• 睡眠虫(睡眠蟲) trypanosome
• 小毛虫(小毛蟲) slug
• 臭屁虫(臭屁蟲) stink bug
• 长虫(長蟲) a snake ; to raise worms
• 彫虫(彫蟲) to carve out phrases from texts like a worm
• 眼虫(眼蟲) Euglena (genus of single-celled plant)
• 嚵虫(嚵蟲) a glutton
• 打虫(打蟲) to swat an insect; to get rid of intestinal parasite with drugs
• 胡涂虫(胡塗蟲) blunderer; bungler
• 精虫冲脑(精蟲衝腦) the spermatozoons have gone to his head; overwhelmed by lust
• 锹形虫(鍬形蟲) stag beetle (generic term for the beetles in the family of lucanidae)
• 吸虫(吸蟲) trematoda; fluke; trematode worm
• 蚖虫(蚖蟲) Protura
• 虫豸(蟲豸) small bug; base person
• 象鼻虫(象鼻蟲) weevil; snout beetle
• 敌百虫(敵百蟲) trichlorphon C4H8Cl3PO4, organic phosphate used as insecticide; also called dipterex
• 蛲虫(蟯蟲) parasitic worm; human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
• 有钩绦虫(有鉤絛蟲) tapeworm (Taenia solium)
• 吸虫纲(吸蟲綱) Class Trematoda; fluke; trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans
• 食虫目(食蟲目) Insectivora
• 虫媒病毒(蟲媒病毒) arbovirus
• 糊涂虫(糊塗蟲) blunderer; bungler
• 虫害(蟲害) insect pest; damage from insects
• 杀虫(殺蟲) insecticide
• 蚱虫(蚱蟲) grasshopper
• 灭虫宁(滅蟲寧) bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
• 钻心虫(鑽心蟲) boring insect
• 百足虫(百足蟲) centipede
• 蟠尾丝虫症(蟠尾絲蟲症) river blindness or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus
• 毛毛虫(毛毛蟲) caterpillar
• 蜡虫(蠟蟲) Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
• 步行虫(步行蟲) ground beetle
• 恙虫病(恙蟲病) Scrub typhus; Tsutsugamushi disease; Mite-borne typhus fever
• 胭脂虫(胭脂蟲) cochineal insect
• 虫书(蟲書) worm seal script
• 毒虫(毒蟲) poisonous insect (or spider) ; junkie
• 底栖有孔虫(底棲有孔蟲) benthic foraminifera
• 扁虫(扁蟲) flatworm

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书虫

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• 《虫部》 Chóng Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 24
• 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 23
• 卷六十七 志第二十 五行五 Volume 67 Treatises 20: Five Elements 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 22
• 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 15
• 卷二十九 志第十九 五行下 Volume 29 Treatises 19: Five Elements Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 14
• 卷二十七中之下 五行志 Volume 27c: Treatise on the Five Elements 3 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 14
• 卷五　時則訓 Chapter 5: Seasonal Standards Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 14
• 《蟲部》 Chóng Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 13
• 卷三十二 志第二十二 五行三 Volume 32 Treatises 22: Five Elements 3 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 13
• 卷五十　　志第三上:　五行一 Volume 50 Treatises 3: Five Elements 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 13

Collocations

• 羽虫 (羽蟲) 恩及羽蟲 — Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露, 卷十三 四時之副第五十五 人副天數第五十六 同類相動第五十七 五行相生第五十八 五行相勝第五十九 五行順逆第六十 治水五行第六十一　Scroll 13 — count: 9
• 鳞虫 (鱗蟲) 以像鱗蟲 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷一　原道訓 Chapter 1: The Original Way — count: 8
• 水虫 (水蟲) 則凡水蟲無聲 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 秋官司寇 第五 5. Office of Autumn and Minister of Justice — count: 8
• 生虫 (生蟲) 憂夫肉自生蟲 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十八 辨物 Chapter 18: Distinguishes Things — count: 8
• 虫食 (蟲食) 有蟲食其葉 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七中之下 五行志 Volume 27c: Treatise on the Five Elements 3 — count: 7
• 蠃虫 (蠃蟲) 時則有蠃蟲之孽 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七中之下 五行志 Volume 27c: Treatise on the Five Elements 3 — count: 7
• 虫牢 (蟲牢) 同盟于蟲牢 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 7
• 虫螟 (蟲螟) 蟲螟為害 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 6
• 虫介 (蟲介) 其蟲介 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 6
• 草虫 (草蟲) 草蟲 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧草蟲 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Cao Chong — count: 6