蚊 — Chinese character
蚊
wén
mosquito, gnat
- Pinyin
- wén
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 虫 文
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 文
- Japanese
- 蚊 as a kanji
Common words with 蚊
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蚊子 | wén zi | mosquito |
| 蚊虫 (蚊蟲) | wén chóng | mosquito |
| 蚊帐 (蚊帳) | wén zhàng | mosquito net; 顶 (dǐng) |
| 蚊香 | wén xiāng | mosquito-repellent incense or coil |
| 驱蚊 (驅蚊) | qū wén | to repel mosquitoes |
| 伊蚊 | yī wén | Aedes, a genus of mosquito |
| 疟蚊 (瘧蚊) | nüè wén | Anopheles (type of mosquito) |
| 防蚊液 | fáng wén yè | mosquito repellent |
| 飞蚊症 (飛蚊症) | fēi wén zhèng | eye floaters (moving spots in the eye's vitreous humor) |
| 黑斑蚊 | hēi bān wén | Aedes, a genus of mosquito |
| 按蚊 | àn wén | anopheles; malarial mosquito |
| 白纹伊蚊 (白紋伊蚊) | bái wén yī wén | Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) |
English words written with 蚊
蚊 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 6
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi Language
- Zhuangzi The Empire
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.