A mole cricket, 蝼蛄, is a burrowing insect that harms crops.
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蝼 never stands alone; it appears in 蝼蛄 (mole cricket) and the figurative 蝼蚁 (mole crickets and ants — i.e. lowly, powerless people). It joins the insect radical 虫 with 娄 for the sound.
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Bound — found only in 蝼蛄 and the literary 蝼蚁, not as a free word.
