蝓 (yú): (in 蛞蝓) slug

Meanings

蛞蝓是一种没有壳的软体动物，喜欢潮湿的地方。

Kuòyú shì yī zhǒng méiyǒu ké de ruǎntǐ dòngwù, xǐhuan cháoshī de dìfang.

A slug is a soft-bodied creature without a shell, fond of damp places.

usage

A bound character with no independent sense. It occurs only in the word 蛞蝓 (slug) — a shell-less land mollusk, basically a snail without its shell.

radical

虫 chóng

insect; bug; creeping creature

Insect radical on the left, 虫, signalling a small soft creature — here a mollusk. Same family as 蛞 (its partner in 蛞蝓) and 蜗 snail.

phonetic

俞 yú

to consent; (surname) Yu

Right side 俞 supplies the sound yú directly. Same phonetic in 愉 happy and 输 to transport; it lends only its reading to this slug name.

蝓 yú