虱 — Chinese character
虱
shī
bug, louse, parasite
- Pinyin
- shī
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 乙 虫
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 乙
- Japanese
- 虱 as a kanji
Common words with 虱
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 虱子 (蝨子) | shī zi | louse (Pediculus humanus) |
| 阴虱 (陰蝨) | yīn shī | crab louse; pubic louse |
| 壁虱 | bì shī | tick; bedbug |
| 头虱 (頭蝨) | tóu shī | head lice |
| 体虱 (體蝨) | tǐ shī | body louse |
| 虱目鱼 (虱目魚) | shī mù yú | milkfish (Chanos chanos) |
| 虱目鱼 (蝨目魚) | shī mù yú | variant of 虱目鱼 (shī mù yú) |
| 塘虱 | táng shī | catfish (family Clariidae) |
| 床虱 (床蝨) | chuáng shī | bedbug |
| 扁虱 | biǎn shī | tick (zoology) |
| 木虱 (木蝨) | mù shī | woodlouse |
| 虱多不痒 (蝨多不癢) | shī duō bù yǎng | (lit.) when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore (idiom); (fig.) to be past worrying (about sth) |
English words written with 虱
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.