蟑螂 (zhāngláng): cockroach

Measure Word

一只蟑螂 zhī

Chúfáng lǐ yǒu zhāngláng!

There are cockroaches in the kitchen!

Tā zuì pà zhāngláng.

She is most afraid of cockroaches.

memory

Both characters have the 虫 (insect) radical on the left, marking them as bug-related. The sound zhāngláng is onomatopoeic in origin.

蟑 zhāng

螂 láng