Chinese symbol for “slug”
鼻涕虫
bí tì chóng
Traditional: 鼻涕蟲
a slug; sb with a runny nose
The closest CC-CEDICT match for slug is 鼻涕虫 (bí tì chóng), defined as: a slug; sb with a runny nose.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “slug”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蜒 | yán | slug; used in 蜿蜒 (wān yán) |
| 蛞蝓 | kuò yú | (zoology) slug |
| 铅条 (鉛條) | qiān tiáo | strip of lead; (printing) slug |
| 蜒蚰 | yán yóu | (dialect) a slug |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 鼻涕虫.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鼻子 | bí zi | nose; 个 (gè),只 (zhī) |
| 鼻孔 | bí kǒng | nostril; 只 (zhī) |
| 鼻涕 | bí tì | nasal mucus; snivel; snot |
| 鼻炎 | bí yán | rhinitis |
| 鼻祖 | bí zǔ | the earliest ancestor; originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc) |
| 鼻腔 | bí qiāng | nasal cavity |
| 痛哭流涕 | tòng kū liú tì | weeping bitter tears |
| 破涕为笑 (破涕為笑) | pò tì wéi xiào | to turn tears into laughter (idiom); to turn grief into happiness |
| 昆虫 (昆蟲) | kūn chóng | insect; 只 (zhī),群 (qún),堆 (duī) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “slug”.
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.