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蝐

mào
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 蝳蝐) hawksbill turtle (an old name for 玳瑁)

Examples

古籍中，蝳蝐是玳瑁的另一种写法。
Gǔjí zhōng, dàimào shì dàimào de lìng yìzhǒng xiěfǎ.
In old texts 蝳蝐 is another written form of the hawksbill turtle.
研究古文字的学者还会碰到罕见的蝐字。
Yánjiū gǔ wénzì de xuézhě hái huì pèngdào hǎnjiàn de mào zì.
Scholars studying ancient characters still come across the rare form 蝐.

Tips

usage
蝐 is a rare bound character appearing only in 蝳蝐, an old written variant of 玳瑁 ('hawksbill turtle'). You will not meet it in modern everyday writing.

Components

radical
虫 chóng
insect; small creature
虫 on the left is the insect/reptile radical, historically applied to many small or shelled creatures including turtles.
phonetic
冒 mào
to emit; risk (phonetic)
冒 on the right gives the exact sound mào with no tone change and no meaning contribution.

No stroke data for 蝐; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

蝐 mào