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蛄

gū
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (used in 蝼蛄) mole cricket
  2. 2 (used in 蝲蛄) crayfish-like crustacean

Examples

蝼蛄夜里在土里打洞，糟蹋幼苗。
Lóugū yèli zài tǔ li dǎdòng, zāotà yòumiáo.
Mole crickets burrow through the soil at night and damage the seedlings.

Tips

history
蛄 is not used on its own in modern Chinese. It is a bound morpheme appearing only in insect/crustacean names: 蝼蛄 (mole cricket) and the dialectal 蝲蛄 (a small crayfish), where it carries a second reading gǔ.

Components

radical
虫 chóng
insect; bug
The insect radical 虫 places this character in the bug family, appropriate, since 蛄 names the mole cricket and similar small creatures.
phonetic
古 gǔ
old; ancient
古 supplies the sound, giving the readings gū and gǔ. The same phonetic drives 姑, 估, and 枯.

Stroke Order

蛄 gū