蟑螂 (zhāngláng): cockroach

Measure Word

一只蟑螂 zhī

厨房里有蟑螂！

Chúfáng lǐ yǒu zhāngláng!

There are cockroaches in the kitchen!

她最怕蟑螂。

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