蝉 — Chinese character
蝉
chán
cicada; continuous
- Pinyin
- chán
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 虫 单
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 单
- Traditional
- 蟬
- Japanese
- 蝉 as a kanji
Common words with 蝉
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蝉联 (蟬聯) | chán lián | to continue in a post; (to hold a post) several times in succession |
| 寒蝉 (寒蟬) | hán chán | a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself); Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia |
| 蝉鸣 (蟬鳴) | chán míng | song of cicadas; chirping of insects |
| 蝉翼 (蟬翼) | chán yì | cicada's wing |
| 金蝉脱壳 (金蟬脫殼) | jīn chán tuō qiào | lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell; a crafty escape plan |
| 噤若寒蝉 (噤若寒蟬) | jìn ruò hán chán | to keep quiet out of fear (idiom) |
| 螳螂捕蝉 (螳螂捕蟬) | táng láng bǔ chán | see 螳螂捕蟬，黃雀在後|螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后[tang2 lang2 bu3 chan2 , huang2 que4 zai4 hou4] |
| 蝉蜕 (蟬蛻) | chán tuì | cicada slough; fig. to free oneself |
| 寒蝉效应 (寒蟬效應) | hán chán xiào yìng | the chilling effect of a climate of fear in which people are afraid to speak their mind |
| 蝉猴 (蟬猴) | chán hóu | (coll.) newly-emerged cicada nymph |
| 蝉科 (蟬科) | chán kē | Cicadidae, homopterous insect family including cicada |
| 蝉虾 (蟬蝦) | chán xiā | slipper lobster (family Scyllaridae) |
English words written with 蝉
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.