蜓 — Chinese character
蜓
tíng
dragonfly
- Pinyin
- tíng
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 虫 廷
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 廷
Common words with 蜓
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蜻蜓 | qīng tíng | dragonfly |
| 蜻蜓点水 (蜻蜓點水) | qīng tíng diǎn shuǐ | lit. the dragonfly touches the water lightly; superficial contact (idiom) |
| 蜻蜓目 | qīng tíng mù | Odonata, order consisting of about 6,000 species of dragonflies and damselflies |
English words written with 蜓
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.