蝕 — Chinese character
蝕
shí
to nibble at, to erode; an eclipse
- Pinyin
- shí
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 飠 虫
- Formation
- ideographic — An insect 虫 bite 飠; 飠 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 蚀
- Japanese
- 蝕 as a kanji
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.