蛱 (jiá): (used in 蛱蝶) brush-footed butte…

Meanings

一对蛱蝶在花丛中穿梭。

Yì duì jiá dié zài huācóng zhōng chuānsuō.

A pair of butterflies flits in and out among the flowers.

history

蛱 is not used on its own. It appears only in 蛱蝶 (the brush-footed butterfly family), a term seen in classical poetry and entomology.

radical

虫 chóng

insect

The insect radical 虫 marks this as a winged bug, here one half of the word for butterfly.

phonetic

夹 jiā

to clip; pressed between

夹 supplies the sound, drifted to jiá. The same phonetic appears in 颊 (cheek) and 狭 (narrow).

蛱 jiá