蛸 — Chinese character
蛸
shāo
octopus; long-legged spider; mantis nest
- Pinyin
- shāo
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 虫 肖
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mollusk; meaning component 虫; sound component 肖
- Japanese
- 蛸 as a kanji
Common words with 蛸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 八带蛸 (八帶蛸) | bā dài shāo | (Shandong dialect) octopus |
| 巴蛸 | bā shāo | (dialect) octopus |
| 海螵蛸 | hǎi piāo xiāo | cuttlebone (used in TCM) |
| 肖蛸 | xiāo shāo | variant of 蟏蛸 (xiāo shāo) |
| 蚆蛸 | bā shāo | variant of 巴蛸 (bā shāo) |
| 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)) |
| 蟏蛸 (蠨蛸) | xiāo shāo | long-jawed orb weaver; long-jawed spider (family Tetragnathidae) |
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.