蟬 — Chinese character
蟬
chán
cicada; continuous
- Pinyin
- chán
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 虫 單
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 單
- Simplified
- 蝉
- Japanese
- 蟬 as a kanji
蟬 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
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.