蟊 — Chinese character
蟊
máo
Spanish fly; grain-eating grub
- Pinyin
- máo
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 矛 虫 虫
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 矛
Common words with 蟊
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蟊贼 (蟊賊) | máo zéi | insect that damages cereal crop seedlings; (lit. and fig.) vermin |
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.