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insect / bug / worm / CL: 條|条, 隻|只
HSK 4
(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc) / (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
HSK 5
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  *蠢* | 蠢* | *蠢
stupid / sluggish / clumsy / to wiggle (of worms) / to move in a disorderly fashion
HSK 7-9
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  *蟲* | 蟲* | *蟲
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL: 條|条, 隻|只 / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
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  *螢* | 螢* | *螢
firefly / glow-worm
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  *蜷* | 蜷* | *蜷
to curl up (like a scroll) / to huddle / Melania libertina / wriggle (as a worm)
polite phrase; conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
worm
to worm one's way into being friends with sb (usually derogatory)
worm (mechanical engineering)
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  *豸* | 豸* | *豸
worm-like invertebrate / mythical animal (see 獬豸) / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 153)
annelid (worm)
parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蠹* | 蠹* | *蠹
insect that eats into books, clothing etc / moth-eaten / worm-eaten
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  *蚛* | 蚛* | *蚛
(literary) (of a worm or insect) to nibble / to bite / worm-eaten
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  *虷* | 虷* | *虷
worm
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蠲* | 蠲* | *蠲
to deduct / to show / bright and clean / glow-worm / galleyworm / millipede
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  *螠* | 螠* | *螠
echiuroid (spoon worm)
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  *蟯* | 蟯* | *蟯
parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served
to decay and be eaten by worms etc / to overhoard grain so that it rots
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  *蚩* | 蚩* | *蚩
ignorant / worm
old worm-eaten books
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蠉* | 蠉* | *蠉
wriggler / mosquito larva / to crawl / to worm along
looper caterpillar, larva of moth in family Geometridae / inch worm
silk from worms fed on leaves
trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, approx 6000 species, mostly parasite, incl. on humans
lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten / constant activity prevents decay (idiom)
clitellum (worm anatomy)
damaged by moths or worms
Class Trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans
(coll.) marine worm resembling intestines such as the spoon worm (echiuroid) or the peanut worm (Sipunculus nudus)
bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
Annelidan, the phylum of annelid worms
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
"eel worm", a parasitic worm carrying meningitis
army worm (e.g. Mythimna separata or Leucania separata etc, major cereal pests)
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  *肙* | 肙* | *肙
a small worm / to twist / to surround / empty
worm-gear pair / worm drive / worm and worm gear
Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans
"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus
to be moth-eaten / to be worm-eaten
digenetic trematode worm (i.e. from Order Digenea 複殖目|复殖目)
Order Digenea (including trematode worms that parasite humans)
a type of poisonous fungus that grows on reeds, used in Chinese medicine to help cure patients suffering from ascaris (parasitic worms)


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