Chinese symbol for “coleoptera”
鞘翅目
qiào chì mù
Coleoptera (insect order including beetles)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for coleoptera is 鞘翅目 (qiào chì mù), defined as: Coleoptera (insect order including beetles).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 鞘翅目.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出鞘 | chū qiào | (of a sword etc) to unsheath |
| 刀鞘 | dāo qiào | scabbard |
| 海鞘 | hǎi qiào | Ascidiacea; sea squirt |
| 叶鞘 (葉鞘) | yè qiào | (botany) leaf sheath |
| 髓鞘 | suǐ qiào | myelin sheath (membrane surrounding axon of nerve cell) |
| 翅膀 | chì bǎng | wing; 只 (zhī),对 (duì) |
| 展翅 | zhǎn chì | to spread wings |
| 鸡翅 (雞翅) | jī chì | chicken wing |
| 目前 | mù qián | at the present time; currently |
See also: Japanese symbol for “coleoptera”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.