螵 — Chinese character
螵
piāo
chrysalis
- Pinyin
- piāo
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 虫 票
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 票
Common words with 螵
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海螵蛸 | hǎi piāo xiāo | cuttlebone (used in TCM) |
| 螵蛸 | piāo xiāo | ootheca, i.e. eggs in their capsule, of a praying mantis (used in TCM); cuttlebone (abbr. for 海螵蛸 (hǎi piāo xiāo)) |
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.