Chinese symbol for “parasite”
寄生虫
jì shēng chóng
Traditional: 寄生蟲
parasite (biology); (fig.) freeloader
The closest CC-CEDICT match for parasite is 寄生虫 (jì shēng chóng), defined as: parasite (biology); (fig.) freeloader.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “parasite”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寄生物 | jì shēng wù | parasite |
| 寄生者 | jì shēng zhě | parasite (human) |
| 米虫 (米蟲) | mǐ chóng | rice weevil; (fig.) sponger |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 寄生虫.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寄托 (寄託) | jì tuō | to entrust (to sb); to place (one's hope, energy etc) in |
| 寄宿 | jì sù | to stay; to lodge; to board |
| 寄生 | jì shēng | to live in or on another organism as a parasite; to live by taking advantage of others |
| 邮寄 (郵寄) | yóu jì | to mail; to send by post |
| 寄出 | jì chū | to mail; to send by post |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 昆虫 (昆蟲) | kūn chóng | insect; 只 (zhī),群 (qún),堆 (duī) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “parasite”.
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.